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At the risk of seeming pedantic, who are you to decide whether viral licensing or copyleft is the proper term?
by rerdavies 3y ago
At the risk of seeming pedantic, who are you to decide whether viral licensing or copyleft is the proper term?
- MaxBarraclough 3y agoIt's not just my preference, anyone familiar with this area of copyright law recognises copyleft as its standard name. Viral licensing is, as I said, a snarky pejorative. [0][1] It's also less precise. Proprietary licenses can be 'viral' too. DRM libraries, for instance, may require that application source code not be made publicly available. > At the risk of seeming pedantic Parroting others in this way comes across as juvenile and antagonistic. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Viral_licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Viral_licensing [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license
- paulmd 3y ago> juvenile and antagonistic. honestly you are over-reading and projecting here
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