Comment by anthk 3 days ago Philosophically RMS won in the end. 4 comments anthk Reply NexRebular 3 days ago Except GPL is done too when anyone can license wash FOSS to public domain via Claude and friends. hiccuphippo 3 days ago GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to. anthk 3 days ago You forgot the sharing point. anthk 3 days ago Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.
NexRebular 3 days ago Except GPL is done too when anyone can license wash FOSS to public domain via Claude and friends. hiccuphippo 3 days ago GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to. anthk 3 days ago You forgot the sharing point. anthk 3 days ago Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.
hiccuphippo 3 days ago GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to. anthk 3 days ago You forgot the sharing point.
anthk 3 days ago Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.
Except GPL is done too when anyone can license wash FOSS to public domain via Claude and friends.
GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.
The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to.
You forgot the sharing point.
Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.
Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.