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The GPL is a virus, by design. I'd go so far as to say if Linux didn't exist, the GPL wouldn't be so common, and we'd prefer less restrictive licenses such as t
by 1_player 5y ago
The GPL is a virus, by design. I'd go so far as to say if Linux didn't exist, the GPL wouldn't be so common, and we'd prefer less restrictive licenses such as those from the BSD world.
- selfhoster11 5y agoIf anything, the open source movement (or the free software movement, tak your pick) would be much poorer for it, and see open source relegated to a library and infrastructure layer of the IT world. As is, with GPL at least there's a chance of having a vertically FOSS stack for hardware that's within most people's reach.