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The FSF has always been late to the game. Not the first to open source (predated by the BSD and MIT licenses) and now just copying the industry (badly) after th
by new_realist 6y ago
The FSF has always been late to the game. Not the first to open source (predated by the BSD and MIT licenses) and now just copying the industry (badly) after the fact. Viral licenses are an interesting idea, but these days open source is driven more by pragmatic and economic forces. Even Apple releases the source to their kernels.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>Not the first to open source (predated by the BSD and MIT licenses) Though the early versions of both the BSD and MIT license predate the GPL, they were inspired by the FSF and the license used for things like Emacs.