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Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War? by creatonez on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:09PM (#33129219)
Contrary to popular conception, GPLv3, at large, dramatically reduces risk for commercial use compared to GPLv2 -- https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2015/devroom-lega...

But as long as companies like Google and Apple whine about it (and sometimes outright lie about it), people will continue to believe that it poses a great risk to commercial use.

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Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War? by jra_samba on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:43PM (#33129360)
Please get your facts correct.

Google does not whine about GPLv3. Google ships GPLv3 licensed code. Google doesn't allow AGPL code, but that is a different license.

Apple, however, will not ship GPLv3 code.

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