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> all code goes under Apache 2 to maximise freedom of people to use that code for any purpose GPL do not prevent using the code for commercial reasons, does it
by linkdd 4y ago
> all code goes under Apache 2 to maximise freedom of people to use that code for any purpose
GPL do not prevent using the code for commercial reasons, does it? IIRC, it just ensure that any derivative work is open-sourced as well. Which I would like to.
> rather than getting glory for it
It's really not about the glory, but more about ensuring that work done on the compiler can come back upstream, so that every one can benefit from it.
Usually I don't mind it, but in this case, if someone can do this better than me, I'd love to be able to learn from it.
- DamonHD 4y agoGPL prevents use in commercial or other applications where it is not then appropriate to share the resulting code. I prefer to allow such uses. For example, for some years there were a handful of lines of code of mine in a phone system helping munge JPEGs not to crash some receiving phones. My original code was Apache 2 (or BSD-like), telco was clearly not going to publish their switch source code, world was a better place. Would not have been legit with GPL original. But people feel very strongly about this stuff.