Re:Is the GPL Really Declining?
by WorldMaker on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:32PM
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I think this is partly why the GPL makes much more sense pre-internet in the eras of floppy and CD distribution. (It shouldn't be surprising that the GPL 3 still has physical media requirements.) With the internet it is hard not to think that source code is "merely" a search away.
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Re:Is the GPL Really Declining?
by joshuamorton on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:09PM
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This is fair, and admittedly I'm young. By the time I started writing code, github already existed. I can't really fathom a situation where all versions of a library could fall out of public access, unless that library was truly and completely unused.