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...and the main distros are enthusiastically adopting them. Within a relatively short time frame, expect everything in your Linux distro other than the kernel
by 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.