[kwlug-disc] Permissive vs copyleft licenses

[Bob Jonkman]

Interesting that TerminusDB measures success by the number of GPL 
license violations. And are switching to a permissive license to 
encourage that.

The blog post mentions a couple of times when they've received pushback 
that "we are not developing for you". Considering that the GPL exists to 
protect the freedom of *people* using software, and they're abandoning 
the GPL, we can see who they *are* developing for...

--Bob.


On 2020-12-08 9:54 p.m., Jason Eckert wrote:
> It definitely looks like permissive licenses have really become the
> standard for most projects over this past decade - here's one more project
> that decided to switch from GPL to the Apache license as a result (citing
> their rationale):
> https://terminusdb.com/blog/2020/12/08/we-love-gplv3-but-are-switching-license-to-apache-2-0-terminusdb/
> 
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