An excellent essay that puts to words something I've been feeling of for a long time. Particularly: "following the letter, but not the spirit," I'm unhappy wi

An excellent essay that puts to words something I've been feeling of for a long time. Particularly: "following the letter, but not the spirit," I'm unhappy with the GPL because companies do the bare minimum to comply, and sometimes make their forks difficult to even find. And freedom to me means freedom to have propriety forks, because either your downstream fork plans to last as long as upstream, in which case diverging from upstream makes rebasing more and more costly over time (incentivising you to minimize that divergence as that's less work/cost in terms of maintainership), or you have a very shortlived product that won't be relevant for long. And the point about paying developers to still contribute to upstream even when downstream has propriety bits is lost in a lot of people.