Re:The time has come to stand up for the GPL
by zak_mc_kracken on Friday March 06, 2015 @11:48PM
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> As long as the Linux kernel exists, the GPL won't die.
So the GPL is alive in the same sense that COBOL is alive: because there's still some software out there that uses it.
Great.
That's a pretty useless definition with a ridiculously low bar, though.
The simple truth is that hardly any new project created in the past ten years has picked the GPL. And just for that reason, it's dying. It will never be technically dead, but it's certainly dead from a practical standpoint.
So the GPL is alive in the same sense that COBOL is alive: because there's still some software out there that uses it.
Great.
That's a pretty useless definition with a ridiculously low bar, though.
The simple truth is that hardly any new project created in the past ten years has picked the GPL. And just for that reason, it's dying. It will never be technically dead, but it's certainly dead from a practical standpoint.