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by dspillett
1041 days ago
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While your main point, that in this case no license or other agreement is being broken and there is no evidence to suggest that the OSM project is unhappy with the situation… > If you use the GPL, those competitors will just be Chinese or from some non-western jurisdiction that doesn’t care about GPL enforcement. This is true – some in China will use GPL code and not stick to the license and that may be a competitive advantage over companies that do play ball¹. But other people ignoring the license should not be considered a reason for anyone else not to, and that shouldn't stop people choosing the GPL if that is what they want for their software. > Man, rms followers are annoying. Stop trying to GPL the entire internet. Man, anti-GPL people are annoying. Stop trying to have someone else's cake and eat it. :) -- [1] Onyx and their Boox range² being one example, last I heard the company was trying to play the race card and make it an anti-China-sentiment issue instead of a blatantly-disregarding-a-license-agreement matter. [2] Not the only issue that puts me off those devices, apparently hidden call home code is present and always active on at least some of them. |
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