Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Posted Oct 16, 2015 17:58 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft by arnout
Parent article: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
> I never really understood the issue with this. So you have to release the source code of your internal build and deployment system to your employers.
No, to _everyone_. Every employee will automatically receive an AGPL license to internal source code and will be able to distribute it at will.
No, to _everyone_. Every employee will automatically receive an AGPL license to internal source code and will be able to distribute it at will.
And the company will have no legal recourse, other than simply firing employees who give this source to anyone outside the company.
> What I also don't understand is how lawyers are so paranoid about copyleft licenses, but there never seems to be a problem with binary firmware blobs that don't even have an accompanying license text.
Lawyers rarely have problems with GPLv2. Unlicensed blobs are actually far less scary - often there's an implied license in place and in the worst case the company will have to cease using these blobs.