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The GPL seems to be respected well enough that businesses avoid it like the plague.
by spacechild1 2y ago
The GPL seems to be respected well enough that businesses avoid it like the plague.
- rbanffy 2y agoNot sure where you are trying to go with this, but pretty much everything with an embedded CPU runs some form of Linux, alongside nearly each and every cloud server in existence. Countless lines of code are compiled with GCC and linked to the GNU libc every second. The GPL is as inextricable from our modern information society as blood is from our bodies.
- spacechild1 2y agoSorry, I should have been more clear: I was thinking of GPL libraries.
- rbanffy 2y agoGPL libraries are for building GPL software. Where I work this is not really a concern since we won't sell the software. AGPL could be a deal breaker for some of our business cases. Neither is a concern for internal applications that are private to the organization.
- spacechild1 2y agoSigh. Obviously, you don't need to avoid it in cases where it doesn't apply in the first place... The point I was trying to make is that businesses do take the GPL seriously - where it applies - and don't just ignore it.