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Copyleft are sadly unclear legally which is why essentially no company uses copyleft licenses even if they should. I mean the intend of apgl is exactly right,
by zwaps 1y ago
Copyleft are sadly unclear legally which is why essentially no company uses copyleft licenses even if they should.
I mean the intend of apgl is exactly right, but in practice it means you can never ever use it in a company even if you really do not even want to change it or sell it or host it in isolation in any way.
That is really frustrating. Most internal licensing tools i have seen just literally blacklist any direct copyleft imports
- palata 1y ago> Copyleft are sadly unclear legally Do you really mean copyleft, or do you mean the GPL family? What about MPL and EUPL? I have heard the legal issues with GPL, never for MPL and EUPL.
- zwaps 1y agoEssentially yes. While weak copyleft would be fine for the use cases i have seen, the distinction and the licenses have yet to be tested in a EU court. As a a consequence there are a numbers of legal options on the matter and as a consequence to that, it is a very hard no from most compliance deps i have seen