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by jordigh 3931 days ago
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.

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