[ohdrat]

thank you, makes sense now. why do they think we think that you can take an open source thing and make it closed source? All you can do is force them to buy commercial licenses by using a GPL on Moby. That is common use of GPL after the fact (see ExtJS history), but I'm not sure how they get around the viral aspect of GPL when they are using source from GPL project in their commercial offering. They'd have to be completely separate. If tomorrow the free "CE" product went away, what would happen? Imagine if we had to pay for the Java runtime or JDK.

[matt4077]

Who's "they" in this little conspiracy theory?

There's nothing viral about using GPL code. Your docker containers are probably running on Linux, which is also GPL, and that has neither infected nor affected you, has it?

[ohdrat]

"they" refers to the business creating the software--extjs or docker.

It's viral, any connection whatsoever, not sure where they draw the line. GPL is just not enforced except when it comes to selling software licenses.

[matt4077]

I wonder how you could say such a patently (and copyright-ly) false thing, especially considering you replied to a comment explicitly mentioning Linux.

Would you not think all these huge companies would think twice before using Linux if it meant being dependent on the good will of everyone who ever contributed to any of thousands of packages that come with a typical distribution?

[user5994461]

You can use the software any way you want. The GPL doesn't stop you.

[matt4077]

Oh, by the way: While stalking you, I noticed you had something much smarter to say 443 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022989

"I predict that the term "micro" will be replaced by the term "modular", and that docker will create a replacement for the microcontainer named the modular loader/container."