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9point6 ,

Sometimes there’s a benefit in getting open source code into proprietary software. Think libraries implementing interoperability APIs, communication protocols, file formats, etc

That’s what permissive licenses are for.

If some company wants to keep their code closed and they have a choice between something interoperable or something proprietary that they will subsequently promote, and the licence is the only thing stopping them from going for the open source approach, that’s worse.

Completely agree that a good breadth of everything else is suited to copyleft licensing though

IsoSpandy ,

Can someone help me? I have been licencing my code under BSD2Clause, I wish to switch to gplv3. How do I switch?

  1. Do I have to put the licence at the top of every file?
  2. Where do I put my name ie Copyright <Author Name> <Year>

Thank you

chris ,
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Here is a guide from the GNU website: www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html

quantenzitrone ,
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I know Luke Smith is controversial, but this Blogpost of him is kinda funny and fits the topic:

Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses

Oisteink ,

You totally misunderstand MIT licensing

takeda ,

In some cases it works, in some it doesn’t. PostgreSQL for example for huge support after Oracle got control of MySQL, despite the license.

chris ,
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Yes. But it’s despite.

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