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that's the problem with cucks, they want to know when their wife gets fucked

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>>883783 (OP)

They only thing that might be defensible in the BSD is....

Actually I don't have anything that comes to mind.

>>883783 (OP)

>muh credit

You're confusing some rich academic crying over not getting a thank you note and pathetic people who literally work for positive social feedback.

>it's the license fag again

getting really tired of your shit

>>883783 (OP)

Can you apply LGPL to any piece of software or is it exclusive to libraries?

>>883783 (OP)

I was just thinking about this today. If they used GPL code we the users could pressure Intel by suing them to release the code which would help us reverse engineer (in private) and completely disable the botnet. It is not just some academic corporate cocksucker that got cucked, we all did. Serves me right for buying Intel. Can't wait for some CPU based on RISC-V. Where are chinks when you need them?

Can FSF and "relicensing to future versions" bullshit be removed from the GPL? If not, then cry me a river.

>big corp takes your GPL code

>big corp doesn't share sources

>big corp uses it's army of lawyers to bully you when you demand they share sources

Licenses are just (digital) pieces of paper that mean nothing if you lack power to enforce them.

>>883806

>Where are chinks when you need them?

Selling emulator handhelds chock full of GPL- and CCNA-licensed code (and proprietary game ROMs), without giving a fuck about your ideas about copyright.

>>883809

Yea we should just give up and stop trying. Embracing the cuck state because surely our corporate overlords will be good masters. I hate this defeatist outlook.

>>883811

You certainly shouldn't wage war on battlefield chosen by your enemies.

Write good code and teach everyone why closed code is bad. This is where corps have nothing to offer. This is how you win.

What if I am using a library that is released under a non-GPL compatible license?

>>883809

That's exactly why FSF and EFF etc exist.

But yeah, in some cases it's certainly true, I can't imagine anyone suing chinks.

>>883812

>he thinks any of these licenses have anything to do with battling corporate monopolies

Where does it say not for corporate use? Do any of these fag licenses say anything about not allowing certain companies/states to use the code?

Yeah thought so.

>>883831

GPL requires you to share the source of changes you made.

Companies/states can ignore this and keep changes to themselves, because they have army of lawyers/pay judge's wages.

So, in practice, when it comes to big guys, GPL is the same as BSD, only spread over more pages.

>>883800

t. cuck

>>883849

>GPL requires you to share the source of changes you made.

Wrong. You only have to share the source to people who you distribute it to.

Don't want to share the source? Don't share the binary.

>>883803

Any piece of software.

>>883875

That post was vague enough to still be correct, just ambiguous.

>>883884

>That post was vague enough to still be correct, just ambiguous.

I've made changes to KeePassXC to improve performance/security of my system and yet I don't have to share those improvements with anyone.

>>883849

It doesn't fucking matter. The entire license argument is drain circling stupidity.

>>883783 (OP)

Tanenbaum is an academic, his paycheck is always provided by academia. Notice how the two big permissive licenses (BSD and MIT) are named after universities? That's no coincidence.

>>883875

Correct. A company could use a GP-licensed program internally, make all the changes they want and not share any of them. The point of Free Software is freedom for the user, but if you don't give the software to anyone, then there are no other users.

The difference between copyleft and permissive only comes into play when a company want to use the software in a product they give or sell to customers.

>>883787

Lmao

>>883787

>>883870

>communist cuck

>writing free software

>not keeping source and selling your effort

>>883783 (OP)

If you are so concerned about compensation then why are you even involved in FOSS?

If Microsoft or Intel takes your GPL code what are you going to do about it? Absolutely nothing.

>>883821

The only thing that could affect them would be an all-out war.

>>883918

They have a policy against it or simply will release their code, if they can see some money from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXwhaTpa3j4

Lets say I steal a good sum of GPL'ed code and integrated that into my proprietary program. How can someone effectively prove that I indeed stole GPL'ed code? Were there any case a court ordered a developer to reveal his source code to the jury for checking any presence of GPL code?