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

[Daniel Pocock]

On 29/02/16 10:02, Fabio Pesari wrote:
> 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
> 


Back to the theme of making the rebuttals conversational, another good
one could be:

"Companies don't like the GPL"

"Isn't that a good sign that the GPL is good for you as a user of
technology?  Would you really expect companies to like a license that
gives you choice and control?"