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What does the GPL allow? (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 30.05.2011, 18:14

> I choose GPL3 because I believe it is a better license. It never occurred
> to me that after dropping 30,000 lines of code in a place where it was
> desperately needed that I'd have people complaining about the license
> instead of discussing the code. We call that "looking the gift horse in
> the mouth".
It's fine, I'm sure. I've seen plenty of projects use GPLv3 (e.g. Desktop Cyber emulator, not that I've tried it or anything, heh). In fact, GNU/FSF pretty much upgraded everything of theirs to use it (GCC, sed, etc). There are still way more GPLv2 users, though, which is by far the #1 choice (don't ask me why), approx. 50% of the "open source" market. I know BSD and Apple dislike v3 (and thus stick to GCC 4.2.1 or older), but otherwise there's no clear consensus.

Actually, the weird part is the difference between "v2 or later" and "v2 only" (Linux kernel), and similar incompatibilities. And my vague memory (since I don't "enjoy" pretending to read boring licenses, nor am I legally inclined or skilled) says that v3 only fixed some loopholes (and incorporated LGPL), e.g. MS patent licenses w/ Novell and TiVo-ization.

Anyways, enough of this, who cares, thanks for your work! :ok: (Now if only I can figure out how to get it working under DOSEMU, heh, am I crazy for wanting that?)

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