You can ignore the difference, but it's kind of obvious
You can ignore the difference, but it's kind of obvious
Posted Jul 1, 2012 16:09 UTC (Sun) by forthy (guest, #1525)In reply to: You can ignore the difference, but it's kind of obvious by cmccabe
Parent article: Linksvayer: 5 years of GPLv3
"Political activism through licensing doesn't make sense".
Well, the GPL always was political activism through licensing. Always, from GPLv1 on. And the GPLv3 fixes the bugs in GPLv2, which were so many that it required a complete rewrite. That some dumbasses like Linus Torvalds are thick and slow, and take ages to "get it" doesn't mean they are right. The GPL is political, it always was, it always will be. Get over it, if you don't want to be political, release under BSDL.
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