alt Hacker News>Personally, it makes me happy if people can make a business using a bit of my work
Copyleft doesn't say that they can't, it says they have to make their changes available
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Joel_Mckay • today at 12:14 PM
I am mostly just an anti-contaminating license proponent. Porting to multiple platforms gets complicated if you include a 3rd party commercial library with a project that on linking demands it also become publicly accessible.
For example, if someone wants to do something creative... they shouldn't have to cite 400 different peoples licenses. That isn't sustainable or fun.
I will stick with Apache 2.0, but understand different folks have other use-cases =3
Which could make the business untenable. I'm not GP commenter, but I do want to be useful to these too.
And as others have said the deceptive term of "plugging the SaaS loophole" ignores that it means most software cannot be combined with it. Most. By far most.
Sure, some people will say "well fuck that software". And that's a stance. But it ain't freedom.