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GPL only restricts one from being a dick. "Unfair!" If someone requires other terms, the existence of GPL code in no way restricts them from writing or buying
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
GPL only restricts one from being a dick. "Unfair!"
If someone requires other terms, the existence of GPL code in no way restricts them from writing or buying other code that is compatible with whatever terms they require.
Anyone crying about that is only crying that they are not allowed to steal something that is already free.
From an authors perspective, do what you want. Don't use GPL if you don't share the single value it enshrines.
It doesn't make you righter or more rational or the GPL wrong or anything like that, and the desire to rent out access to the use of a secret is the most common and least interesting thing in the world, as is the desire to try to present that as being any sort of principle about freedom instead of the crass food-gathering thing that it is.
- iraqmtpizza 3y ago[flagged]
- Dah00n 3y agoTake a deep breath and try again.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoLOL where's the lie? if you have to send lawyers after someone for stealing something which was free, it's not free. it's just a cult of flatulence inhalers that think that permissively licensed code is breaking their precious rules by declining to sue innocent people for keeping their own work. as has been made readily apparent in this thread
- brenns10 3y agoGPL breakers wouldn't be breaking GPL if they kept their own work. They break it when they distribute a compiled work that's only partly theirs, and mainly somebody else's, without sharing the source code for it. You're more than welcome to build on GPL code and keep your own work. Just don't distribute it.
- iraqmtpizza 3y ago>only partly theirs >Just don't distribute it. I thought it was free as in speech, but ok. Send your lawyers, commies. But yeah, I'll stick to actually free software like Apache. I don't want to get an extraneous toenail fungus on me.
- Dah00n 3y agoI said nothing about a lie. But you add only anger to the conversation for no reason. I didn't even say I disagreed with you yet you are on the attack right away.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoTake a deep huff of those digestive gases and try again.