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What matters to me is the specific language of the license and the enforcement or non-enforcement of it. I think the GPL licenses that exist can be quite usefu
by ilaksh 6y ago
What matters to me is the specific language of the license and the enforcement or non-enforcement of it.
I think the GPL licenses that exist can be quite useful for people who choose them.
However, they are not perfect for everyone. My assumption is that to make progress for those groups, you need some substantive change to the license as well as enforcement strategies.
And, whether it's Stallman or anyone else, you are going to get very little support for really substantive changes to GPL or FSF.
That's why from my perspective, this is mainly an irrelevant political struggle which is not actually going to push software freedom or anything forward, regardless of the outcome.
I think you need people who deeply understand the purpose of copyleft licenses and also really deeply understand new technologies and paradigms such as distributed public computing and ledgers. And it's not going to be easy to improve upon the licenses and other things we already have.
But in any case the idea that some particular individual is so important (or problematic) in how we organize all of our software business makes no sense to me.