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How is a license that allows someone or some corporation to take some code, add to it, and make those additions proprietary "more open" than a license that spec
by protomyth 8y ago
How is a license that allows someone or some corporation to take some code, add to it, and make those additions proprietary "more open" than a license that specifically disallows that type of scenario?
This gets argued all the time. What the corporation did was freedom for them not the code. GPL protects the code, MIT/BSD protects the people. Depending on your definition of "freedom" you will prefer one over the other.
- wtetzner 8y agoGPL protects the freedom of the users of the software.
- protomyth 8y agoIt protects the code which happens to protect the users, but it doesn't let people do whatever they want with the code. Which you prefer is up to you. Using the word freedom is just problematic when there are restrictions.