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There would be no open source without the gpl

• red_admiral 7mo ago
  MIT and BSD are doing just fine. The 25519 crypto package that's built into practically everything these days (SSH, TLS, most e2e messaging) was released as both a spec and a C reference implementation _in the public domain_.
• fulafel 7mo ago
  The GPL was historically of course a counter-reaction to copyrightability of code. Hence "copyleft" etc.
• joquarky 7mo ago
  Nothing lasts forever. We now have tools that let us fulfill the ultimate goal of open source. GPL was a means, not an end.
  • hiccuphippo 7mo ago
    This. If Stallman could have asked AI to generate the source code for the printer driver, the GPL would not exist.