A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

Posted Mar 20, 2015 20:18 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware by Del-
Parent article: A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

I don't agree that it's inappropriate to criticize GPLv3 "because it hurts GPL". For the record, I think Linus has it right and GPLv3 has too many shades of "I am altering our deal, pray that I don't alter it further". But I wasn't arguing that the GPLv3 is bad, I was correcting the statement "google hates GPL"

I came away from the google training understanding that GPLv2 was perfectly acceptable, GPLv3 somewhat acceptable, but going back and looking up the license on the project that I remember being used as an example of Google paying big bucks for an exception to the license, it turns out that the project in question is AGPLv3, not GPLv3. so at this point it could be that I had a bad instructer in my session, or I just remembered it wrong.

People see the lack of GPL code in Android and think that it means that Google in anti-GPL and that is very much not the case, that's just the Android project.

A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

Posted Mar 21, 2015 20:43 UTC (Sat) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link] (1 responses)

>I don't agree that it's inappropriate to criticize GPLv3 "because it hurts GPL".

Now that wasn't quite what you did.

>For the record, I think Linus has it right

And I think you should let Linus talk for himself, you are hardly a mind reader. Personally I think both him and RMS let their ego come in the way. However, I have yet to see anybody criticize v3 without twisting facts, and you are no exception. It is counterproductive and it creates some noise that I am sick and tired of.

A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

Posted Apr 1, 2015 4:54 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Care to add some content to your post? I particularly like your implication that it's humanly impossible to criticize v3. You don't actually believe that, do you?