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Copyleft is a niche or a branch, not a dead end. What's a niche to some is a dead end to others. There are plenty of vibrant academic projects that will never,
by stcredzero 8y ago
Copyleft is a niche or a branch, not a dead end.
What's a niche to some is a dead end to others. There are plenty of vibrant academic projects that will never, ever see commercial use. From the POV of someone only interested in making a profit, it could well be a dead end.
- cyphar 8y agoOn the other hand, many academic software packages have absolutely awfully restricted licenses and likely make use of MIT or BSD code. In most cases the licenses were written by the academic themselves. If the majority body of software was GPL then the license choice would've been made for them and academic research would be far more vibrant.
- stcredzero 8y agoI think Copyleft is very well suited for academic research, and for research produced by government institutions.