Guess what friend -- GPL is not going to die no matter how much you and your short-sighted friends pray for it. It's survived other legal challenges before and it will survive this one too.
Your companies that "simply banned" GPL did so because they were too ignorant to bother to read it and understand it. Banning LGPL too proves the point.
Your claim that it's somehow not "sane" to use it betrays your own hostility and ignorance. Why don't you direct your anger at something actually evil, instead of a license that has done demonstrably good things for the world?
The good news is you pissed me off enough to get off my ass and donate. GPL Forever.
> Guess what friend -- GPL is not going to die no matter how much you and your short-sighted friends pray for it. It's survived other legal challenges before and it will survive this one too.
It's already pretty much dead, hardly any project uses it any more.
> Why don't you direct your anger at something actually evil, instead of a license that has done demonstrably good things for the world?
> The good news is you pissed me off enough to get off my ass and donate. GPL Forever.
Anger? You seem to be the one spittling at your keyboard right now. I don't really care much about this topic, I just avoid the GPL for my projects and it looks like I'm not the only one.
Sorry I made you angry, it's really not worth getting yourself upset about.
> It's already pretty much dead, hardly any project uses it any more.
Hahahaha ! Almost every single device you own or will own will include GPL code, from your phone to every television to (soon) your light switches and light bulbs.
After the world ends, the only thing still alive will be GPL licensed Linux kernels running robots (assuming that's not after the int64_t time_t wrap time :-).
Your companies that "simply banned" GPL did so because they were too ignorant to bother to read it and understand it. Banning LGPL too proves the point.
Your claim that it's somehow not "sane" to use it betrays your own hostility and ignorance. Why don't you direct your anger at something actually evil, instead of a license that has done demonstrably good things for the world?
The good news is you pissed me off enough to get off my ass and donate. GPL Forever.