> GPL is all about politics
People use this excuse to make open source software about politics that has nothing to do with software, ownership etc.
People use this excuse to make open source software about politics that has nothing to do with software, ownership etc.
Here's a quote from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source):
> Open source as a term emerged in the late 1990s by a group of people in the free software movement who were critical of the political agenda and moral philosophy implied in the term "free software" and sought to reframe the discourse to reflect a more commercially minded position.
The GPL and Free Software were always political from the very moment Richard Stallman conceived of the GPL.
Note that all the hobby stuff I have on Github created by myself, unless forced by existing licenses, are GPL based.
Even though I am not into FOSS politics, I once were, that time is long gone.
I think it's shifting. I think we'll see a return to copyleft licenses as people realize the stuff they're writing that is actually valuable is just a couple commits away from being some new AWS component they will get no compensation for, and that starts to matter a lot more.
20-25-30 years ago we were a lot more aware of this stuff. There's a reason the Linux kernel is GPL.
If corporate entities want your stuff bad enough, they can negotiate a separate license.