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"The GPL is not a free license. It does not grant freedom, it grants different restrictions." sigh Then why have a license at all? You have to draw the line
by skore 12y ago
"The GPL is not a free license. It does not grant freedom, it grants different restrictions."
sigh
Then why have a license at all?
You have to draw the line somewhere - we live in a complicated world full of complicated humans. The FSF chose to draw the line in a very particular way and they have perfectly good reasons for doing that. Other people or companies choose differently for different reasons[0]. This site tries to even landgrab the very particular phrasing of "Free" that the FSF uses. The guts of some people.
[0] The site mentions MIT, BSD or zlib as licenses but guess why Google chooses Apache? Because patents. Because the world is a complicated place full of complicated people.