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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·4 months agoYes, permissive licensing instead of copyleft is bad. Things like Alpine and Busybox exist mostly to allow corporations to exploit Linux without giving back to the community, build user-hostile Tivoized devices, etc.
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months ago user-hostile Tivoized devices GPLv2 does the same. Linus Torvalds explicitly said he’s fine with that and disapproves the GPLv3 for this very reason. I guess you use an OS with a GPLv3 kernel then? Hurd?
Yes, permissive licensing instead of copyleft is bad. Things like Alpine and Busybox exist mostly to allow corporations to exploit Linux without giving back to the community, build user-hostile Tivoized devices, etc.
GPLv2 does the same. Linus Torvalds explicitly said he’s fine with that and disapproves the GPLv3 for this very reason.
I guess you use an OS with a GPLv3 kernel then? Hurd?