
5 Mar
2016
5 Mar
'16
4:06 a.m.
Craig Sanders via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> writes:
the point of copyleft is "once free, always free", for **ALL** users, forever, no matter how far downstream from the original release, with no risk of the software or any contributions to it being buried in proprietary forks. copyleft is worthless if it's unenforced and effectively the same as a non-copyleft license like BSD.
Suggest people here watch the following LCA2016 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mnHebVSUb0 This talks about some of the problems the GPL is facing. -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/