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There's only one business model the GPL interferes with, namely selling copies of software nobody paid you to write.
by prodigal_erik 16y ago
There's only one business model the GPL interferes with, namely selling copies of software nobody paid you to write.
- chc 16y agoThat's really oversimplifying. For example, if I write a full Photoshop clone that links to a third-party library to support some obscure graphics format, you'd have to be out of your mind to say the whole program is a derivative of that library — but that's how the GPL sees it. In GPL World, all of our programs are forks of libc. This problem is so significant that no major Linux distro puts its system libraries under the GPL. It is clear that they believe the GPL would interfere with more than just the freeloading business model.