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> Then you're just not in agreement with how GPL works. It's meant to be an explicit guard against people taking projects, forking them, and never contributing
by dvt 6y ago
> Then you're just not in agreement with how GPL works. It's meant to be an explicit guard against people taking projects, forking them, and never contributing back.
I'm definitely not in agreement with it, I just don't like that it tries to present itself as some kind of purist "free software" license, but in reality it mandates how code can be released. How is that free? To take a page out of the blog post, it sure sounds like propaganda to me.
- saagarjha 6y agoGPL is about freedom for software users, not for software authors. It places restrictions on what software authors can do in order to give users more privileges. (Which I personally believe is the right trade-off, as users are usually in lesser-privileged positions to begin with.)