Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Proposal for "FUD responses" wiki pages

[Fabio Pesari]

On 02/29/2016 02:12 AM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> So I'd bet other proprietors are in a similar position: they don't mind the 
> GPL when they're the copyright holder and they can't effectively relicense 
> a GPL'd program without competing against their own code. But they complain 
> when they're the licensee (such as GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner claiming the 
> GPL is "too restrictive"[2] while the GPL apparently didn't stop him and 
> others from building a lucrative business around git, which is licensed 
> under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1).

Well, that's not true for all companies: Google outright bans the AGPL
even for their own products.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/google_on_open_source_licenses/

Also, most GPL violations happen because of Android, a Google product.

Github is likely the one to blame for most free software shifting to lax
licenses:

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/282759/6517300/9dc14536-c367-11e4-9a63-b23a3d75af78.png

As well as poorly educating people about licenses so much, many people
are actually not including any licensing info, making their projects
proprietary:

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/282759/6517301/9dc26d44-c367-11e4-9eca-2e99e7c92387.png