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Well. No surprise GPL is dying.... where it was dominant license 20 years ago when I started with Open Source/Free Software. If you goal to maximize adoption a
by PeterZaitsev 3y ago
Well. No surprise GPL is dying.... where it was dominant license 20 years ago when I started with Open Source/Free Software.
If you goal to maximize adoption and really your user freedoms it is no good to force them to release changes under the same license as GPL tries to do. And many companies found out maintaning their own fork is costly anyway and so it ofen makes sense to contribute to upstream.
If your goal is to ensure there is no commercial derivatives... with raise of the cloud for many classes of software GPL became useless for protection, this is why we see raise of SSPL etc.
- usr1106 3y agoI don't see GPL dying, Linux is GPLv2 and Google uses it everwhere. When I contribute to OSS (which I don't do frequently enough...) I feel certainly better if it's under GPL than a permissive license. Why should my voluntary work support a business model like Apple's? (Not that I like Google's business model either, but at least they play fair with GPLv2 AFAIK.)
- cbmuser 3y ago> I don't see GPL dying, Linux is GPLv2 and Google uses it everwhere. True. But Linus clearly said that he thinks that the GPLv3 is overreaching which is why he would never adopt it.
- andreareina 3y agoWhat license gives the end user more freedom to do what they want with the software? That's what the gpl is about, not adoption or "contributing back".
- latexr 3y ago> What license gives the end user more freedom to do what they want with the software? The Unlicense, the WTFPL, MIT, BSD, probably others I’m forgetting.
- Bran_son 3y ago> If you goal to maximize adoption What's the point in maximizing adoption if it requires forsaking your primary goal, which is user freedoms?