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I think Apple's choice here is less about functionality and more about the allergy that companies have to AGPL and GPLv3. To be clear this is an allergy that t

I think Apple's choice here is less about functionality and more about the allergy that companies have to AGPL and GPLv3. To be clear this is an allergy that the GPL authors intended to create for this very reason. I personally dislike the GPL because I think my modifications should belong to me. I spent the effort on them, and I don't think any license which requires me to forfeit my effort is worth spending time with. Corporations agree and this is why the code licensed with GPLv2 is sparingly accepted and code licensed with GPLv3 is outright rejected by most large companies.

thisislife2 2y ago
What effort is "forfeited" (if you are talking about open source code)? If you use any GPL software, any modifications you make belongs to you until you choose to distribute the software with your modifications. Modifying a GPL software, for personal use, doesn't mean that you are obliged to make your modifications also open source. Moreover, GPL also means that you can never be denied access to the source code of a GPL software that is publicly distributed. This is because GPL protects a users "right to repair". For example, consider the case of a software distributed under a permissive license like MIT or BSD. If you modify and re-distribute it, anyone else can further modify the software that you patched and improved but they are not obliged to release the new source code to you. In such a scenario, you are willing "forfeiting" your effort. With GPL, at least your right to access future source codes (of publicly distributed GPL software) cannot be denied to not just you, but any user of the software.