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there is value to keeping something public in itself, like with parks and roads. If anything i d say that todays feudal state of tech proves that gpl was right
by cblconfederate 5y ago
there is value to keeping something public in itself, like with parks and roads. If anything i d say that todays feudal state of tech proves that gpl was right
it s hard to deny that the most-used OSS software, is GPL
- trasz 5y agoNot necessarily. Linux kernel is GPL, sure, but if you look at eg language runtimes, or various servers, GPL is no longer obviously dominant.
- paavohtl 5y agoIt's easy to deny, as long as we include libraries in the definition of "software". ZLib is bundled with macOS, iOS, basically every Linux distribution, every game console and even every Windows 10 installation [1] [2]. Same for extremely common libraries like libpng, Curl, SQLite, Boost and OpenSSL. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/products/notices/win https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/products/notices/win