Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”
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Drew DeVault
Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive” https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/19/2024-04-19-Copyleft-is-not-restrictive.html 5 comments
Drew DeVault
@whynothugo the CDDL doesn't actually make any such restriction. The CDDL and GPL have incompatible obligations.
maryjane :fediverso:
@drewdevault using the term "restrictive" for copyleft licenses/Free Software Licenses is something straight out of "newspeak". Since when is assuring that everyone has the same rights and obligations "restrictive"?
tippfehlr
@drewdevault this is gold > Take a moment here to entertain the supposition that nuclear warheads are legally obliged to include a copy of the MIT license, if they incorporate MIT licensed code in their guidance systems, on board, as they are “distributing” that software to the, err, recipients. As it were. |
@drewdevault The CDDL restricts me from mixing to code with GPL'd code. I really don't see a way to frame this as an obligation.