There is no GPLv3 fiasco [LWN.net]

There is no GPLv3 fiasco

Posted Jun 28, 2021 14:07 UTC (Mon) by immibis (subscriber, #105511)
In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by khim
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Merely not using copyleft licenses is hardly "dedicating substantial resources to its eradication". Industry has never and will never use copyleft licenses except in rare cases where it's to their advantage. Nothing has changed except public opinion of the GPL, and that new opinion has no grounding in reality.

There is no "GPLv3 fiasco". What is this "GPLv3 fiasco" you speak of? I have never seen a "fiasco", only a smear campaign, from companies that would like to Tivoize, and from "useful idiots" who repeat and amplify the arguments of those companies.

Industry rejected GPLv3, yes. Industry also rejected GPLv2 until they realized they could Tivoize. Industry likes BSD/MIT because it lets them have what they want and give nothing in return. It's not smart to avoid GPLv3 just because "industry doesn't like it". Them not liking it is kinda the point.

There is no GPLv3 fiasco

Posted Jun 28, 2021 18:34 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

GPLv3, above all, feels like a classic case of revolutionary ardour colliding with reality – specifically, the reality that of all the copyleft software out there, the piece with the most day-to-day practical importance had a GPLv2-only licence grant, an enormous number of contributors, and no centralization of ownership.