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The FSF has this bizarre belief that companies write some software, and right before it gets shipped, pick the license under which to distribute it [1]: When w
by millstone 12y ago
The FSF has this bizarre belief that companies write some software, and right before it gets shipped, pick the license under which to distribute it [1]:
When we explain to the employer that it is illegal to distribute the improved version except as free software, the employer usually decides to release it as free software rather than throw it away.
Our hapless employer wrote some amazing software, but then found out that they had to give it away! Hah, joke's on them!
1: https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/