Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu...
by ajross on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:57AM
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> Ok, let’s get into licensing. Copyleft licenses like AGPL and SSPL have a weaker result in terms of overall benefit to society than liberal licenses like MIT and Apache2. [...] They’re forcing a world view that everything should be free and shared like some sort of make-believe Star Trek future where money doesn’t exist.
That's FUD right out of 1998. Sigh.
Look, any attack on copyleft needs to start from a position of describing how any of the open source revolution of the last two decades happens without it. I mean, basically everything was driven by GPL software.
Instead, this starts from a position of poop flinging by calling GPL proponents naive communists. I don't see that it gets any better. Skip.
That's FUD right out of 1998. Sigh.
Look, any attack on copyleft needs to start from a position of describing how any of the open source revolution of the last two decades happens without it. I mean, basically everything was driven by GPL software.
Instead, this starts from a position of poop flinging by calling GPL proponents naive communists. I don't see that it gets any better. Skip.