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Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by nerdponx on Friday December 14, 2018 @12:22PM (#18682555)
Other than the pure ideal of software freedom, what practically is bad about this kind of dual licensing? And how is this in any way tantamount to calling the GPL "cancer" (which, in all fairness, does spread somewhat like cancer throughout a codebase, regardless of whether you think that's a good or bad thing).
Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by yarrel on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:01PM (#18682908)
In all fairness that isn't true.

"Viral" and "cancer" are catchy memes but the GPL doesn't just inexplicably leap to software that is sat next to it minding its own business.

The GPL is inheritance, not contagion. But it's difficult to talk smack about that without sounding even creepier.