• Novi@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    You asked a simple question about “better” which is pretty subjective for whooping out the references along accusations of falsehood.

    “virally open source”

    Which answered the original question quite succinctly. I wish you would have read more carefully before…

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      5 days ago

      I asked what the OP felt was better about GPLv3.

      The person who responded made provably false statements. I know they are false, because I went to look it up; which is outlined in my “[whooped] out references”.

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            4 days ago

            GPL is virally open source, because code using it needs to also be open source.

            According to your comment, that doesn’t apply to BSD, so BSD isn’t virally open source, and the claim is true.

            The reason some consider this better is because a company can’t fork the code, keeping it private, improving their version with paid workforce while also merging in changes to the original project, thus ending up with a superior version that they can then sell for profit, to no benefit of the opensource version or the people contributing to it.

            There’s more reasons, and a whole ideological side, but I think that’s the main practical reason for using copyleft licenses, and a big one.

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            4 days ago

            Nothing I said is remotely untrue, for a start. Both licenses - and their pros and cons - are well documented, well-tread territory. It’s weird that you even had to ask.

            And really weird how you seem to be taking my comment so personally while simultaneously spreading misinformation, literally admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about (“not very well versed”) AND putting words in my mouth. 🤷🏽

            Like, that’s a LOT. You doing alright, fam?