Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0
by ragnese on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:52PM
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I mean... I get what you're saying, but most of the things you listed as victories over corporate money happened 100 years ago. That says something about the current struggle.
Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0
by pmoriarty on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:13PM
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So should we give up because things are currently not going our way?
Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0
by ragnese on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:44PM
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Not at all. I was merely arguing against the assertion that GPLv3 was a mistake and that things would be different if GNU left it at GPLv2.
I'm an idealist. I do lots of things that are inconvenient and feel like a losing battle.
If corporate money always wins, then why do we have environmental legislation, worker protection laws, 40 hour work weeks, overtime pay, anti-child labor laws, and unions?
Sure, in some places and in some cases these have been violated or aren't as strong as they could be, but you can't say they they don't exist and corporations and money always win.
Something else we need to keep in mind is that corporations are made of people, and the opinions of these people can and do change.
Plenty of things that used to be unthinkable in the past are now commonplace, and plenty of things (like slavery or segregation) that were ubiquitous and seemed inevitable to a lot of people back then came to be rejected by society at large.