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"The described trend is caused by consciously rejecting GPLs ideals," I very highly doubt that. There are 3 cases I can think of: 1 - Business related models
by zobzu 15y ago
"The described trend is caused by consciously rejecting GPLs ideals,"
I very highly doubt that.
There are 3 cases I can think of:
1 - Business related models: "we're scared of GPL, we don't know what it is, but force devs to use smth else or code it from scratch"
2 - We're devs and due to 1, and possibly startups, we'll want non-GPL code. We'll also start to spam the community how GPL is bad in any possible way.
3 - All the devs are telling me GPL sux. I'm a cool and hip new person I'll do what they say to fit in. (I don't even care about what the GPL is made for).
Now, one could wonder, why'd they want to even use BSD or similar licenses? They could just go with public domain. THat's "real" freedom to their ears isn't it? Anyone does anything they want with it. Perfect.
Not so. They use BSD for credits. BSD forces you to retain copyright in the code, and that means if your name is in the code, you're getting a job very, very easily.
So you see, all the above only tells me one thing:
People who know are misleading others (like you just did) on purpose for financial reasons, not because GPL ideals are wrong.
It would be OK if they at least mentioned the reasons in these simple terms. But that wouldn't help them achieve their goals, if others keep on using the GPL.
Shame on them, shame on you.
- pm90 15y ago..Not so. They use BSD for credits. I don't quite understand....why is it shameful if a developer wants to retain ownership/claim authorship over the code that he spent time and effort in developing?
- CJefferson 15y ago"Public domain" is an unclear concept, I am under the impression that in many countries there is no such thing as "public domain" from a strict legal perspective. BSD is (for me) the closest thing to a clear legal "public domain", and that is why I use it. Also, the GPL is incompatible with the iOS store, which is a serious problem for many people.
- cygx 15y agoThis is correct. For example, German law is based on the concept of 'Urheberrecht', ie 'creator's rights', instead of 'copyright'. This is the reason why copyright notices (which were mandatory in the US until 1989 according to Wikipedia) were never necessary in Germany and why there's no direct equivalent to public domain: As soon as you create something worthwhile, you gain creator's rights, and as you remain the creator no matter what you do or what usage rights you grant to others, you can't give them away completely. There's a somewhat recent, rather embarrassing quote by German politician and lawyer Volker Kauder, who claimed to have acquired creator's rights to some images he used on his homepage without having the appropriate usage rights. Anyway, you need an explicit license like http://pdclib.rootdirectory.de/wiki/License http://pdclib.rootdirectory.de/wiki/License or http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ if you're German and want to add code to the 'public domain'.
- Semiapies 15y agoIf there was a GPLed project for every paranoid rant on how anyone interested in any other license is trying to mislead people and destroy the GPL, TFA would never have been written.
- zobzu 15y agoI'm not sure to understand your comment, but as it sounds like.. there's nothing wrong with being interested in another license. TFA and TFC are however some of many anti-GPL FUD, which is quite different from simply "being interested by other licenses".
- sigzero 15y agoNo, shame on you for actually trying to turn that around and accuse the poster.