2026-09-17 11:37 UTC
GPL is bad because it perpetuates the concept of durable intellectual property ownership/ licensing over supposedly “Free” (as in libre) code. Durable licenses are all bad. Unlicense is the only true FOSS license, with an ‘F’.
Notable and very honorable examples of projects that use Unlicense are youtube-dl and yt-dlp (and obviously, those are not programs intended to benefit corporations).
Now you have heard an argument against GPL that is not about corporations.
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@Azazel@lemmy.ml 2026-09-17 16:20
Fair enough that’s an argument I hadn’t heard. I must admit “Free but you must keep it free” not being free enough for you strikes me as such a dumb argument I can’t fathom it being made in good faith but fair enough I guess. Now I will say your comment about durable intellectual property ownership is interesting philosophically but I also don’t agree. No one “owns” GPL code. It’s public for everyone and anyone can fork it or whatever. GPL doesn’t give the original owner any power over others it just requires the code which was born free to stay free.