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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by stcredzero on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:31PM (#18738297)
Copyleft is a niche or a branch, not a dead end.

What's a niche to some is a dead end to others. There are plenty of vibrant academic projects that will never, ever see commercial use. From the POV of someone only interested in making a profit, it could well be a dead end.

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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by cyphar on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:28AM (#18739301)
On the other hand, many academic software packages have absolutely awfully restricted licenses and likely make use of MIT or BSD code. In most cases the licenses were written by the academic themselves. If the majority body of software was GPL then the license choice would've been made for them and academic research would be far more vibrant.
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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by stcredzero on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:37PM (#18743152)
I think Copyleft is very well suited for academic research, and for research produced by government institutions.
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