Bug: Not GPL. :-) · Issue #834 · uutils/coreutils
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Hi, I love this project, but infrastructural software really should be under the GPL. It's very important that distributed software can be fixed by the end user, which the MIT licenses & fr...

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/119645

The amount of libertarian ideology present in FOSS is shocking

Yeah, I can’t believe the shit liberals say (hehe) sometimes…

  • holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    Well GPL3 holds legal weight from what I can tell. Companies don’t want to touch it… Or do they?

    It’s just that stuff like the Peer Production License is largely unproven and there isn’t a big legal framework protecting it like the FSF.

    I think there are limits to what we can realistically achieve with software licenses. The goal should be to at least minimize damage as much as possible.