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Re:Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit by chappi42 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:21AM (#24677766)
> Another thing we need to fight against is providing software to companies that put users into walled gardens. We need licenses that require data export and right to forget. Encode the GDPR into our licenses.

Don't like walled gardens either. But imho the "fight against" should be done by (more flexible) political regulation and not by (rather inflexible) software licenses.

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Re:Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit by emteycz on Sunday October 04, 2020 @07:43AM (#24678240)
I don't understand why should we work hard to get all (or half, but that's still billions) people in the world to do this if we can simply write it into the license terms and use the already existing legal framework made exactly for this purpose. I also don't understand the claimed inflexibility, IP rights are one of the most flexible pieces of legislation I know, and your license can be as flexible as you wish too. On the other hand, what in the hell is flexible about laws made only for this purpose?
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