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GPL draconian? How do people misunderstand it so? The GPL is there so that your contribution will actually benefit society in the long term.
by another-cuppa 8y ago
GPL draconian? How do people misunderstand it so? The GPL is there so that your contribution will actually benefit society in the long term.
- dragonwriter 8y agoYou are confusing purpose (what GPL intends to accomplish) with methods (how the GPL attempts to accomplish it's purpose); “draconian” described the latter and your description of the former does not, even if true, contradict it.
- Qub3d 8y agoMy guess is Notch, like many developers, was put off by the "viral" licensing [0] of the GPL. [0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license
- koffiezet 8y agoOne of the things GPL does is take away many of the developer's rights. It's a protection for code, not for it's creators - and the latter is what most licenses try to protect.