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Strange, I've always thought about GPLv3 as of an upgrade (i.e. better license) to GPLv2
by p0w3n3d 2y ago
Strange, I've always thought about GPLv3 as of an upgrade (i.e. better license) to GPLv2
- wkat4242 2y agoIt's an upgrade for us, yes. But not for the companies that want to pretend they're doing FOSS. Like Apple these days. They had a good run where they really were open, like when they created OpenCL and Darwin was kept up to date. However these days most of their APIs are closed and Darwin is always lagging behind. Not that anyone actually uses that anyway, but still..
- sbuk 2y agoIt seems to me that it has actually been harmful to F/LOSS in the longer term. Where before, there were companies that were contributing to and using F/LOSS, GPLv3 put a stop to that virtually overnight. Now we see comments like "$MEGACORP should stop leaching" or "$MEGACORP should sponsor/ contribute more" - which of course they did, with time and people before the GPLv3 was released.