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In the 90s I used to be a GPL fanatic. GPL was practically all we had, Linux was the thing of the day, everything was GPL in Linux and life was easy. But then we realized GPL was not suitable to then modern needs, and we got GPLv3, and Mozilla, and Apache, and AGPL, etc.
And it seems to me that this is often just a theater. 99% of devs, open source devs, that believe in the power of open code, have no idea what these licenses are. They have no idea if they are using them correctly. And they are probably vulnerable, if their work were to be scrutinized legally. And the actual entities that could be a threat, are free to dual license, or create new licenses that align with their own specific interests.
I like BSD and MIT, because they are simple and clear.
This is an interesting, 14-years old article on the topic.
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/7/23/licensing/ 1 reply
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