Good link Matthias! Great presentation, even when taking the pragmatic view. Apart from the community-statement, I'd like to highlight his statement that copyleft stimulates collaboration, whereas non-copyleft projects require committees and other bureaucratic organization-parts to avoid partners splitting off and doing their own thing, not contributing back as a result.
Quick URL to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIEDNyZOkA Conclusions start around 24mins in. I'm preparing a presentation for the Dutch T-Dose conference which includes this topic as well. Glad other people are noticing the same symptoms. http://www.t-dose.org/2015/talks/open-source-has-won-now-what Regards, Nico (NL) On do, 2015-10-29 at 17:53 +0100, Matthias Kirschner wrote: > LWN has an interesting article "Permissive licenses, community, and > copyleft" <https://lwn.net/Articles/660428/>. It is about a talk by HP's > Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink: > > He then ended the session with an extended appeal to move the > open-source software industry away from permissive licenses like > Apache 2.0 and toward copyleft licenses like the GPL. Not doing so, he > said, puts the FOSS community at just as much risk of collapse as > license proliferation threatened to in years past. > > Regards, > Matthias >
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