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Except, there are a lot of folks here who seem to think everything should fall under GPL. Even LGPL can create distribution porting/legal problems on other plat

Except, there are a lot of folks here who seem to think everything should fall under GPL. Even LGPL can create distribution porting/legal problems on other platforms if static linking is needed. Hence the wxWidget license covers the issue. Some people are way more aggressive than the foundation. QED =)

pabs3 4y ago
In 2023, after decades of abusive proprietary software, I believe all software should be maximally copyleft (AGPL). So I think watering down of copyleft licenses isn't a good idea.
- Joel_Mckay 4y ago
  Sometimes people choose a compromise, so others do not suffer the weight of personal idealism. I rather people have unrestricted development options, and not feel like they entered a Faustian bargain. Its a personal choice, but I have only been coding since 1993… so probably don’t know any better. lol =)
UncleEntity 4y ago
> Except, there are a lot of folks here who seem to think everything should fall under GPL. Except, there’s nothing forcing someone to take a GPL’d library and integrate it into their application. If you don’t like the license don’t use the code and later whine about “punitive” actions taken against you. At this point there’s no excuse for not knowing that the GPL is very restrictive and the code isn’t free-for-all. No excuse except maybe they think they won’t get caught by including some reverse-engineering clause in their TOS so people can’t find out. That worked out pretty well for these folks, no?
- Joel_Mckay 4y ago
  Many projects release under multiple licenses, and try to cover everyone's use-cases. So a user may be violating GPL rules, and not violating the rules at the same time. One often can't tell by simply looking at the source or .so dump alone. My point was, I personally don't want to inflict my own idealism on people 10 years from now, that will be doing something completely unpredictable. =)

pabs3 4y ago

In 2023, after decades of abusive proprietary software, I believe all software should be maximally copyleft (AGPL). So I think watering down of copyleft licenses isn't a good idea.

Joel_Mckay 4y ago
Sometimes people choose a compromise, so others do not suffer the weight of personal idealism. I rather people have unrestricted development options, and not feel like they entered a Faustian bargain. Its a personal choice, but I have only been coding since 1993… so probably don’t know any better. lol =)

UncleEntity 4y ago

> Except, there are a lot of folks here who seem to think everything should fall under GPL. Except, there’s nothing forcing someone to take a GPL’d library and integrate it into their application. If you don’t like the license don’t use the code and later whine about “punitive” actions taken against you. At this point there’s no excuse for not knowing that the GPL is very restrictive and the code isn’t free-for-all. No excuse except maybe they think they won’t get caught by including some reverse-engineering clause in their TOS so people can’t find out. That worked out pretty well for these folks, no?

Joel_Mckay 4y ago
Many projects release under multiple licenses, and try to cover everyone's use-cases. So a user may be violating GPL rules, and not violating the rules at the same time. One often can't tell by simply looking at the source or .so dump alone. My point was, I personally don't want to inflict my own idealism on people 10 years from now, that will be doing something completely unpredictable. =)