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Linux goes full authoritarian: The Linux Foundation is working with the UN at the forefront of developing vaccine passports, and Linus goes out of his way to criticize vaccine skeptics
posted 4 years ago by altmehere 4 years ago by altmehere +109 / -0

Vaccine passports: https://archive.is/9psCP

Linus's comments: https://archive.is/pXzn9

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Not everything that should uses the LGPL and the fact that they had to invent a separate license to suppress the virality of the normal GPL tells you that even the architects of the GPL know their license is a disease.

The whole point of a strong copyleft is code remains free, it will never turn proprietary.

You use GPL because you want a strong copyleft, that's the whole point. If you are making a library that is designed to be link to and you don't care about the applications using it, you use LGPL. LGPL states that the user MUST be able to replace the library portion, shared linking is easier in this case because of the architecture of the program loaders for most OSes. You can still static link to an LGPL library fine if you provide some kind of link editor to allow users to edit and relink your library to their version. If you made an application that is not designed to be linked to, what is the point of using LGPL?

BSD is "here's some code do whatever with it."

There's that lolbertarian logic again. The only people praising it are idealists or someone looking to build their own proprietary fief.

People's Democratic Repository

Are you seriously suggesting there is a scarcity of bits? Am I confiscating and redistributing your code if I made a copy? Do you somehow lose yours if I did? Is git clone stealing and coveting your neighbor's wealth?

There is no central planning committee dictating five year plans for GPL programs. The only contract is that you give the same freedoms to your users the same freedom you received.

If you can't distribute your own changes however you want, it's not a permissive license.

That would be BSD, pray you are given permission.

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You're not modifying the license of the original work in any way.

Now beg Apple and Intel so you can modify it for your own use, they sure did lock it up forever.

I'm suggesting a scarcity of developer time

Its also a scarcity of developer time if they don't have access to the formerly BSD turned proprietary modified source code. With GPL, all code is always available to anyone by requiring anyone receiving the code to do the same, make it available to anyone else that got it from them.

You're a commie

You are projecting, if anything, BSD is what allows communist confiscation by allowing the code to be relicensed and closed off. "I want to take this but don't want to allow anyone else using my version to see my code".

Your logic is "I published a design for a new type of screw, so I should get to use everything made with that screw design for free! If you don't like it, make your own screw!"

No, the logic is "I designed a screw, I want everyone to be able to modify it if they wish, on condition they also allow anyone else to do the same as they have". Maybe your application needs a fancy interrupted thread for faster operations, feel free to make better alternatives for your use case, just as BSD and Windows exists alongside the Linux kernel for different purposes.

And then they do make their own screw and say "whoever wants to use it can".

You talk about "rights, rights, rights" but never any obligation to actually preserve it. Now the improved version can only be used by some people who are better than others.

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