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It should be noted that the Rust community is also guilty of something similar. That is, porting old GPL programs, typically written in C, to Rust and relicensi
by drnick1 8mo ago
It should be noted that the Rust community is also guilty of something similar. That is, porting old GPL programs, typically written in C, to Rust and relicensing them as MIT.
- wolvesechoes 8mo ago> porting old GPL programs, typically written in C, to Rust and relicensing them as MIT Everything for memory safety.
- phendrenad2 8mo agoAnd BSD drivers are "clean-room reimplementations" of the GPL drivers from Linux (but we all know they aren't).
- bananamogul 8mo ago...and the main distros are enthusiastically adopting them. Within a relatively short time frame, expect everything in your Linux distro other than the kernel to be MIT-licensed because everything that is FSF-maintained will be rewritten in Rust with the MIT license. The kernel will then be next, though it'll take a longer timeframe. The GPL just didn't win in the marketplace of ideas.
- wolvesechoes 8mo agoPeople criticized Stallman et al. for being ideological, but popularity of permissive licenses is actually pure ideology, in Marxian sense - people doing without knowing, and conflating their interests with interests of big capital. You can see the same with people defending AI-laundering. Stallman's proposal is opposite of ideology, it is conscious political project. And thus it is failing.