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by icebraining 3930 days ago
For me, open source restrictions are merely a consolation prize. I'd gladly give them up tomorrow along with the rest of copyright.
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Without the restrictions of the GPL we might not have OpenWrt, many Linux modules, or near universal hardware support for gcc.

If we can find a way to ensure we can get those without copyleft, alright, but so far copyright is the only legal tool we have.

So the penalty is just having to switch to *BSD and LLVM?