alt Hacker NewsBecause between 15 and 20 years ago the BSD zealots won that culture war. I would really love to see a simulation where GNU licenses won that culture war and which landscape we would have today.
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orthoxerox • yesterday at 6:19 PM
GPL wouldn't have changed anything. Or even AGPL, if you had been running an unmodified Bear instance.
There are good reasons the so-called "BSD zealots" won the so-called "culture war", such as the definition of a derived work being largely uncharted territory. Did you know that there's a compelling legal argument that the GPL attaches to programs talking to each other via JSON data structures?
I think MPL 2.0 is the ideal kind of copyleft, because of its scope being very clear.