Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd Sep 2009 12:41 UTC, submitted by nitsudima
David Chisnall casts a critical eye over the GNU General Public License and asks whether it's done more harm than good for the Free Software movement. "Looking back, has the GPL been a help, or a hindrance? And will it continue to be a help or hindrance in the future?"
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Although I like the concept of GPL (yeah, the viral nature of it actually) I don't like the GPL itself because...well its like reading an EULA. It seem to cram everything in there so its impossible to read it all, and it seem more focused on stopping big evil capitalist companies (like the "must stop tivo and microsoft at any cost so lets include clauses directed at them" community surrounding it) rather than sharing...so there are other licenses like the GPL, with the same "must share" nature that are far simpler, easier to understand, that I prefer over the GPL. Even Microsoft got one that I find better for that reason. Ironic, or what?