Re:“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft
by singpolyma3 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @07:47AM
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Can you name a major tech company not actively violating the GPL (not to mention untold MIT and BSD licenses on JavaScript...) I'm not sure I can
Re:“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft
by AstralStorm on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:58AM
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Oh, many don't violate GPL by avoiding it like the plague (esp. GPL 3) and complying with the terms when they cannot.
BSD tends to be easier to comply to by including a license note somewhere within the manual or software. MIT has even fewer terms.
Big companies are very capable, and often happy, to sue each other for reasons including breach of patent, copyright, trademark and much more. This includes GPL breaches.
The point of GPL is to build an ecosystem and create "herd immunity" against bad actors.
Protecting the rights of a lone developer VS a large corporation can be expensive and difficult - not because of the GPL - but because of how the legal system works in most parts of the world.
But that is besides the point.
What matters is building an ecosystem where 99% of the important entities do not systematically violate the license, and this is already happening.