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Re:Is the GPL Really Declining? by erikbye on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:13AM (#14263572)
Open source and free software is thriving. Always have. Look around you. Look at what runs the internet you use. Look at the number of projects and the number of contributors.
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Re:Is the GPL Really Declining? by pjmlp on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:51AM (#14263907)
Free software has always thrived all the way back to magazine listenings, PD and several variations of shareware, postware, beerware, whateverwere.

Adoption of business friendly licenses in detriment of GPL, means we will get back to those days.

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Re:Is the GPL Really Declining? by erikbye on Friday May 05, 2017 @05:39AM (#14272198)
A business friendly license (like BSD) usually results in exactly what Apple has done. Take whatever they want, close it off, and hardly contribute back upstream.
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