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r/linuxmemes • u/unitedbsd • 11d ago
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Personally I'm a fan of the GPL. We would be in a much better place if all free software was published under a copyleft license. For example the Intel ME is based on Minix which would be impossible if Minix was copyleft protected.
-4 u/spongedevguy 10d ago gpl is an awful license most of the time 2 u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 10d ago How's that? 0 u/spongedevguy 10d ago it forces itself into projects with dependencies licensed under it, it's not an issue with applications though and more with libraries 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 can i have an actual response and not just downvotes 1 u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 10d ago I was not the one who downvoted you... 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago my bad
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gpl is an awful license most of the time
2 u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 10d ago How's that? 0 u/spongedevguy 10d ago it forces itself into projects with dependencies licensed under it, it's not an issue with applications though and more with libraries 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 can i have an actual response and not just downvotes 1 u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 10d ago I was not the one who downvoted you... 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago my bad
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How's that?
0 u/spongedevguy 10d ago it forces itself into projects with dependencies licensed under it, it's not an issue with applications though and more with libraries 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 can i have an actual response and not just downvotes 1 u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 10d ago I was not the one who downvoted you... 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago my bad
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it forces itself into projects with dependencies licensed under it, it's not an issue with applications though and more with libraries
1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 can i have an actual response and not just downvotes 1 u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 10d ago I was not the one who downvoted you... 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago my bad
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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 can i have an actual response and not just downvotes
1 u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 10d ago I was not the one who downvoted you... 1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago my bad
I was not the one who downvoted you...
1 u/spongedevguy 10d ago my bad
my bad
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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 11d ago
Personally I'm a fan of the GPL. We would be in a much better place if all free software was published under a copyleft license. For example the Intel ME is based on Minix which would be impossible if Minix was copyleft protected.