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> death penalty Can we slow down with the FUD please? GPLv3 is extremely lenient with license violations and GPLv2 is not. Yet, calling it "death penalty" is a
by goodpoint 5y ago
> death penalty
Can we slow down with the FUD please? GPLv3 is extremely lenient with license violations and GPLv2 is not. Yet, calling it "death penalty" is absurd.
Millions of contracts have clauses for immediate termination, and often with less clear reasons than copyright violation. Plenty of free services like HN can close an account at any time and nobody calls it "death penalty".
Do we see thousands of companies suddenly losing millions because of a GPLv2 breach? Nope.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoYou know that the terminology comes from one of the drafters of the GPLv3, right ?
- goodpoint 5y agoYes. I know Jeremy Allison and I watched the presentation of his slides. But here the term is being used in a completely different framing: FUD.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoWhat? I am literally using the term to describe the exact same point. What is different in the framing ?