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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by yakubin on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:53AM (#24940034)
> Copyleft is a great way of assuring freedom. MySQL is an excellent example on how non-copyleft open licenses may give you freedom in practice but end meaning the end of a product. QT is going the same road.

Both MySQL and Qt are licensed under GPL/LGPL, unless you pay for a commercial license. So, if anything, they are examples of copyleft licensing.

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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by rhn_mk1 on Friday October 30, 2020 @04:38AM (#24940296)
On the surface of it, yes, but at least in the Qt case, the Qt Company is exempt from obeying the GPL by requiring contributors to assign them copyright, effectively making the codebase permissive for themselves and only themselves.
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