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> Copyleft is a great way of assuring freedom. MySQL is an excellent example on how non-copyleft open licenses may give you freedom in practice but end meaning
by yakubin 6y ago
> Copyleft is a great way of assuring freedom. MySQL is an excellent example on how non-copyleft open licenses may give you freedom in practice but end meaning the end of a product. QT is going the same road.
Both MySQL and Qt are licensed under GPL/LGPL, unless you pay for a commercial license. So, if anything, they are examples of copyleft licensing.
- rhn_mk1 6y agoOn the surface of it, yes, but at least in the Qt case, the Qt Company is exempt from obeying the GPL by requiring contributors to assign them copyright, effectively making the codebase permissive for themselves and only themselves.