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What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?
by 3825 13y ago
What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?
- danabramov 13y agoI think he means commercial use in closed-source projects. So it's not v2 vs v3, but GPL vs Apache or MIT.
- profquail 13y agoYes, that's what I meant. Most -- nearly all -- major open-source projects written in C# (or other .NET languages) are permissively licensed. Yes, that means people could just grab the code and use it in their own closed-source projects without giving back; but, as far as I've seen, most devs are happy to contribute back to the projects they use in whatever way they can.
- rbehrends 13y agoIt's not just commercial use. Non-permissive open source licenses are also frequently incompatible with one another [1]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl...
- wes-exp 13y agoGPL (2 and 3) is completely hostile to commercial (i.e. proprietary) use. In a big middle finger to business, v2 even describes a hypothetical businessperson as "Ty Coon, President of Vice".