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by monochr 4147 days ago
In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever.

Yet again the GPL does not restrict your freedoms. It just adds to them if you're in the pro-user freedom camp of software development and leaves you no worse off if you don't.

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> In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever.

Hyperbole isn't really called for. I can read MIT/BSD because that has patent allowances.

I'm not saying that GPL is bad, I am saying that GPL serves different freedoms to MIT/BSD which in turn serves different freedoms to proprietary (which does have freedoms, e.g. liability).

There is no one size fits all solution to licensing and there will never be.