There is no GPLv3 fiasco
There is no GPLv3 fiasco
Posted Jun 28, 2021 18:34 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: There is no GPLv3 fiasco by immibis
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
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.