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Well, GPL is about freedom for the users, not necessarily for the developers.

• goodpoint 6y ago
  Every developer is also an user. And "user" freedom is more important because we use tenths of millions of SLOC and do development work on a small fraction.
  • tremon 6y ago
    The copyright holder is never a user in a discussion about distribution rights, though.
    • goodpoint 6y ago
      ...in a very narrow sense where one person or organization owns all the copyright on a codebase. This can be true for a small program on a microcontroller, but 99.9% of FOSS is deployed as part of a big ecosystem. For each line of code I deploy on production there's 1000 lines of kernel, libraries, daemons, firmware. As developers, we are 0.1% developers and 99.9% users.
• moron4hire 6y ago
  How does freedom for the user-who-is-not-a-developer to change the source work, then? The FSF fundamentally assumes the user is a developer. Hell, look at the vast majority of the GNU software. I wouldn't say it's at all targeted at not-developer users.
  • erik_seaberg 6y ago
    The user could hire any developer, he doesn't have to live within the original author's roadmap.