The time has come to stand up for the GPL

Re:The time has come to stand up for the GPL by Arnt on Friday March 06, 2015 @11:31AM (#9157877)

I didn't donate anything either. FOLLOW THESE TERMS OR I WILL SUE YOU is not a good ethos for open source IMO. It leads so easily to MY WAY OR NO WAY, and that's not a good mindset for developers.

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Re:The time has come to stand up for the GPL by Karunamon on Friday March 06, 2015 @11:41AM (#9157931)

Thank copyright for that - as that's how the law is written. You get access to someone else's IP (which is a stupid fucking concept, IMO, but anyways..) under the terms the authors want or not at all.

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Re:The time has come to stand up for the GPL by igl on Friday March 06, 2015 @01:11PM (#9158495)

Derp. Have you read any proprietary software license before? Do you have an iPhone? What planet are you from? Your comment made me go and donate again now.

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Re:The time has come to stand up for the GPL by s73v3r on Friday March 06, 2015 @12:46PM (#9158340)

You're ignoring the fact that this guy and The Conservancy tried to work with VMWare for years to correct this, and they gave them the run around.

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