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by slownews45 1791 days ago
GPL used to be targeted at DEVELOPERS of software - the share and share alike model. These developers would in some cases use the GPL'ed software in locked down devices (many / most android devices are pretty locked down - but developers contribute to a GPL kernel).

So yes, FSF created GPLv3 to focus on USERS freedoms, but the users are not writing the software - so it remains the devs who pick licenses.

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The Free Software definition always put users first.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition#T...

I've never met a developer who is not a user.