[bitdiddle]

I can see your point but I think the GPL is more important than ever. I'm not sure "most" free software is written by people from hated proprietary companies. It's a little more complex than that. For example I love IBM, they sell proprietary software and also contribute heavily to free software. In what sense is the FSF not thriving?

Many of the open-source licenses (I say open-source deliberately to distinguish them from GPL) are commercial friendly by design, .eg. ASL. Since we all need to earn a living we make compromises. Many corporations for better or worse prefer these licenses as they enable them to benefit from the collaborative model without having to give back the value they add. Some do this in a very ethical fashion by employing major contributors to projects, thereby by giving and getting, all good. However I would argue that these serve the interests of companies more than individual programmers.

So a question I have is, if the GPL is no longer relevant as many now claim, why was Git released as GPL?

I can totally see Oracle sales folks playing this FUD argument. As a programmer I typically look at sales people as what they are. They will say anything to make a deal.

Happy 25th FSF, I'm looking forward to the 50th.

[alnayyir]

__Git__

License: GNU General Public License v2

Hint hint.