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It's possible you're going to hear some anti-GPL stuff. I urge you to ignore it. Linux-libre
Whoever worked on the site in question did a poor job, in my opinion. (I'm not linking
to it so as to avoid giving it more credit.) GitWeb
Their arguments revolve around how "the GPL is not a free license" and "it restricts How To
freedoms" and ends with a call for people to not only not use the GPL but to contact
projects that are and and asking them to change to a pushover license. Articles
If they're going to be against the GPL then, in order to be logically consistent, they
must also be against proprietary software which by their own standards must be even RSS Feed
worse than the GPL is. But they're not. That would at least make for a consistent
position. But it's not. About Me
In a world where the free software movement won, all software everywhere was free, Contact Me
and no one ever made proprietary software then in that hypothetical world maybe an
argument could be made that copyleft isn't needed and could be safely retired. Until
GPL enforced
then, it remains a good strategy to ensure collaboration and protect software freedom.
It's possible you're going to hear some anti-GPL stuff. I urge you to ignore it. If you appreciate any of the things I
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