Right. Like, if Linus hadn't bogged down the Linux kernel with the GPL license, it might have wound up as popular as BSD!
Both dynamics go on, and the question is which is more likely to dominate in a given case (and cumulatively).
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg <odyssomay@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Ramana Kumar <Ramana.Kumar@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Using the GPL (or a strong copyleft free license) strengthens the free software community of which I thought the Haskell community is a part (or at least intersects substantially).
I don't think it strengthens the community. If someone wants to make a change a library,
but not release the source, they cannot do that with GPL.
The idea behind GPL is that then, the change is forced to be released - which would, as you say, strengthen the community.
However, I think what would happen instead is that the person would simply not use the library in the first place.
So in short: GPL does not make people become a part of the community - it pushes them away.
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