[ale] [Rant] Fedora Package Caching

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Wed Oct 4 17:49:57 EDT 2017


GPLv3 still lets facebook, google, twitter use the code, provided they don't
ever distribute it, giving nothing back.

The AGPL means they would have to share, regardless.

OTOH, as a business person, I'd stay away from all GPL code and stick with BSD,
Apache, MIT, and similar licensed code.   Like Apple, Roku, and others have done.

It isn't my place to tell any developer which license they should release their
code under and I'm appreciative for all the work BSD, Apache, and MIT licensed
code has provide to lots of people over the years.

On 10/04/2017 05:13 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I like GPL v3
> 
> On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 17:07 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> Why not the AGPL?
>>
>>
>> On 10/04/2017 03:43 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:
>>> On 10/04/17 14:06, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>> Yikes! And on a LINUX group, even :-( FreeBSD is the abomination license and
>>>> code that allowed Apple to Embrace and Extend to become the triple-high
>>>> walled garden that they are. 
>>> <snip>
>>>> It's not FreeBSD's fault except for the license that says "Here! Have fun!
>>>> It's OK to be a profiteering dick of the work of others. We don't care.". 
>>> Full disclosure: I write code and always use GPL v2 if I release it, no
>>> exceptions: https://github.com/mmlj4 (among other places). 
>> 


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