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Re:What HashiCorp’s License Change Means for Spacelift Custo... by fractalb on Friday August 11, 2023 @10:40AM (#37089209)
I definitely feel GPL has its own merits. It's time people recognize that.
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Re:What HashiCorp’s License Change Means for Spacelift Custo... by pydry on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:41AM (#37089965)
They do. The merits are what make FAANG angry. They want the right to profit from your work without any corresponding obligations and GPLv3, AGPL, SSPL, BPL, etc. all deny them that right.
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Re:What HashiCorp’s License Change Means for Spacelift Custo... by josephcsible on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:17PM (#37092712)
It's not really about profit. The GPL doesn't restrict that. It's about wanting to leech off of the FOSS community by turning other people's FOSS code into proprietary products.

By the way, the SSPL isn't free or open source, so lumping it in with the GPL and AGPL like that could easily mislead people.

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Re:What HashiCorp’s License Change Means for Spacelift Custo... by demizer on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:20PM (#37091213)
My personal open source contributions will only be GPL. Damn the torpedoes! I will only contribute to lesser licenses if I am getting paid by a corp, which I do, and of course that software cannot be GPL'd.
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