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As I said, the intentions are good, but in practice these licenses are used as an actual incentive for companies to purchase the commercial alternative for redi
by bad_user 13y ago
As I said, the intentions are good, but in practice these licenses are used as an actual incentive for companies to purchase the commercial alternative for redistribution.
- streptomycin 13y agoBut that's only true for a small minority of GPLv3 software. The exact same small minority that requires copyright assignment to a for-profit corporation. Saying "licenses such as AGPL and GPLv3 are hurting open-source" is complete and utter FUD. A non-FUD way of saying it would be something like, "copyright assignment to for-profit corporations hurts the free software movement". If there is no copyright assignment to a mischievous corporation, then GPLv3 is practically strictly superior to GPLv2 in terms of software freedom.