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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by globular-toast on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:24PM (#28472928)
It's not a feature of GPL, it's an unfortunate side-effect of copyleft. If you have a better way to "disable" copyright than copyleft then I'm sure it would supersede the GPL.
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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by josefx on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:40AM (#28478451)
> If you have a better way to "disable" copyright than copyleft then I'm sure it would supersede the GPL.

In absence of copyright anyone could publish binaries build on GPL code without sharing the sources. So a central feature of the GPL would cease to be if copyright was in any way disabled. Saying the GPL is about disabling copyright is about as true as McDonalds being about healthy diets.

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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by yakubin on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:27AM (#28478689)
MPL and CDDL are copyleft licenses as well. It is a feature of GPL.
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