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In my ladder, Public Domain is at the top, and proprietary is at the bottom, all others are just in between, varies in some parts, identical in others. I do no
by tzury 15y ago
In my ladder, Public Domain is at the top, and proprietary is at the bottom, all others are just in between, varies in some parts, identical in others.
I do not see how SQLite could have done any better with any other license for instance.
If someone on this earth is low enough to remove credits from code, or even worse, ship it under own name, there is nothing to prevent him/her from doing so, not even lawyers GNU will never hire to to sue this cracker.
- tikhonj 15y agoThe usual argument is that the GPL encourages others to contribute back to the free software ecosystem. If you write something cool and unique and release it under the GPL, anybody who builds stuff off it will have to release their code as well, leading to more code for everybody.