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The future is BSD style licenses, not the GPL3 variants. RMS got a little too clever for his own good. Why on earth would you agree to give up your source cod
by asparagui 14y ago
The future is BSD style licenses, not the GPL3 variants. RMS got a little too clever for his own good.
Why on earth would you agree to give up your source code/competitive advantage to save writing a few hundred lines of javascript? It's one thing to try and write a kernel from scratch, but to sell your soul for a Javascript library (looking @ you, Sencha Touch, which is mostly re-themed jQuery mobile) is silly.
At least these licenses have a good purpose: they provide a shibboleth for identifying the ideologically pure.
- streptomycin 14y agoYou seem to be implicitly assuming that "the future" is "a few hundred lines of javascript".
- sparkie 14y agoAlso implicitly assuming that all code is written for competitive advantage, and that licenses are aimed at developers.