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Copyleft exists to keep Free Software as Free Software. It doesn't prevent non-Free competitors from existing. If you don't want to be part of the copyleft Fre
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Copyleft exists to keep Free Software as Free Software. It doesn't prevent non-Free competitors from existing.
If you don't want to be part of the copyleft Free and Open Source software world, then you always have the option to not be a part of it. You can make your own competing product under a non-Free licence, or base your work on Free Software that uses a permissive 'copycenter' licence. This isn't a point against copyleft.
- pjmlp 6y agoI am advocate of dual licensing, GPL + commercial. So who doesn't want to pay can use GPL, who wants to make money can use the commercial license. This clearly doesn't work for companies that like Apple, are now sponsoring POSIX clones for IoT deployments to play safe.