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Yes I agree with this, and in reality nothing really stopping Companies from abusing the GPL, notice how almost all corporations avoid GPLv3 like the plague. (
by jmclnx 6y ago
Yes I agree with this, and in reality nothing really stopping Companies from abusing the GPL, notice how almost all corporations avoid GPLv3 like the plague.
(edit, I meant easy to abuse GPL2, but GPL3 ias hard to abuse)
Personality I believe the final nail was the "coup" at the FSF with RMS. He could be a pain at times, but almost all his fears about the future of computing is slowly coming true.
- bigbubba 6y agoI'd say GPLv3 avoidance demonstrates respect[fear] of the license, not abuse of it. To abuse it would be to use that software while not respecting the terms of the license.
- fxtentacle 6y agoLike CISCO, Gigabyte, D-Link, NETGEAR, AVM, FANTEC, Iliad, ... https://gpl-violations.org/news/ https://gpl-violations.org/news/
- jmclnx 6y agoI missed pointing out GPL2 is rather easy to abuse, i edited my original post. Yes, Large Companies is scared of the GPL3 and we are told specifically never use any GPL3 software where I work :)
- 533474 6y agoRMS was right and the community is afraid to admit it
- ghaff 6y agoGPLv2 vs. v3 seems to be more a matter of inertia. Yes, a few have concerns about the TiVo-ization language. But a lot of it is that projects like Linux were already under GPLv2 and Linus wasn't interested in changing--and, absent copyright assignment, doing so would have been at least somewhat controversial and would necessarily rely on legal theories not everyone would have been on board with.