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Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service by suyash on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:46PM (#24804880)
"GPL is about freedom for the user" - define what do you mean by freedom, it's different for different people.

GPL is the better license for net freedom. - it's not, because of it's virality, it pollutes other code and then demands everything fall into it's license, which is ethically wrong.

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Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service by heavyset_go on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:49PM (#24804926)
> GPL is the better license for net freedom. - it's not, because of it's virality, it pollutes other code and then demands everything fall into it's license, which is ethically wrong.

Nobody has a gun held to their head and are forced to use GPL code in their code.

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