Re:Twenty questions about the GPL
by jacquesm on Monday July 13, 2009 @05:01PM
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Because corporations were using these to circumvent the GPL.
Think of it as an evolutionary process, as the attempts to use the code released under the GPL while violating the spirit of the GPL increased in sophistication the GPL evolved to counter those abuses. This made it longer (bugfixes!).
Think of it as an evolutionary process, as the attempts to use the code released under the GPL while violating the spirit of the GPL increased in sophistication the GPL evolved to counter those abuses. This made it longer (bugfixes!).