On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:21:01AM +0900, Philip Rushik wrote: > > The GPL inforces that the codebase stays free. > > No, all free licenses enforce a continually free codebase. If I > release under MIT or BSD, that code that I release will always be free > and there's nothing anybody else can do about it.
Yes, you are right about that, I wasn't clear enough. > GPL tries to control what other people do with code they wrote. In my > opinion that's kinda f'ed up. GPL does not protect your code, any > license will do that, GPL has no additional effect on your code above > what MIT/BSD does. The only place GPL works differently is on code > that is written by somebody else. Not necessarily by somebody else. > Granted, GPL did a lot of good, it created a free software culture and > made Linux what it is. Ubuntu has also done a lot of good by getting > people started in Linux, but that doesn't make it suckless. I never fully understood why people use Ubuntu. Kind regards, -Alex
