[HN Gopher] The Problems with the GPL
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The Problems with the GPL
Author : forgotpwd16
Score : 3 points
Date : 2021-02-06 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| jadavies wrote:
| > You cannot sell GPL licensed software
|
| Wrong
| coddle-hark wrote:
| > If GPL licensed source code is required for a program to
| compile, the program must also be under the GPL.
|
| This is obviously wrong too, or else everything compiled by gcc
| would need to be licensed as GPL. If you distribute a GPL
| licensed program then the recipient must be able to build the
| equivalent program from source (e.g. you can't rely on an
| internal toolchain that doesn't have a publicly available
| alternative) but that isn't what the author is saying.
| jepper wrote:
| Yet Linux is way more popular option both on the server and the
| desktop. Way way way more people and companies contribute. And it
| seems that BSD use is declining on servers? [1] MacOs is a unix
| but how does that help the BSD community, as most code is build
| upon it and the changes don't really trickle back. Companies just
| take, if you can do whatever you want with the code. You can wish
| that everybody shared back in a perfect world, reality proves
| this is simply not true. At least the company trying to influence
| development has to contribute to gain influence, and you can fork
| it (with their changes!) if you don't like that.
|
| The GNU license at least somewhat protective. To each their own,
| but I would never release software under a permissive free
| license.
|
| [1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-bsd
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