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by globular-toast
724 days ago
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Linus himself has said licensing Linux under the GPL was one of the best things he did. He's great, but to achieve what Linux is today he'd need to have made himself a couple orders of magnitude bigger. Linus also acknowledges the "genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration" thing. And this coming from someone not renowned for being particularly humble. The folks you've worked with are looking for something they can take without giving back. It's as simple as that really. Either that or they just don't like the GPL for entirely irrational reasons, which is all too common. GPL is like "you can do whatever you like, except preventing others from doing what they like". Permissive zealots are like "boo! That's restrictive! I should be allowed to do anything I like!" Beats me why any thinking person would want a world like that. |
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I think if you're going to make an accusation like that, the only morally sound way to do it is to that person's face. Since you haven't done that, I'll disregard what you've said. As should others.
> GPL is like
You've mistaken me for someone arguing against the GPL. I love all the GPL'd software I use daily. Especially the ones I wrote.
These days I enjoy working with Rust in part because of the language and community, and in part because I get to choose the terms I license the resulting code under. The folks who write me paychecks appreciate it too.
I wish you luck in your advocacy efforts.