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		Drdrdrq on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lack of leadership in open source results in sourc... This is exactly it. GPL worked in the past, but if we take a look at Android (which is based on Linux) we can see that it failed to protect users' freedoms completely.

AnaniasAnanas on June 1, 2019 [–]

Something that GPLv3 would have prevented.

klipt on June 2, 2019 | [–]

Then Android would probably have just based off BSD like iOS did.

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