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The Supposed Decline of Copyleft

posted by martyb on Sunday September 03 2017, @11:51AM   
from the can-you-have-copyleft-without-copyright? dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) provides a rebuttal, the supposed decline of copyleft, to assertions from Black Duck regarding the uptake of reciprocal versus non-reciprocal licenses. In the rebuttal, the FSF works to stem a cascade of articles and blogs which have proliferated based on some initial disinformation. While there does seem to be an increase in the use of non-reciprocal licensing in general there are several possible explanations and the rebuttal goes into detail and backs each possibility with data. In short, both styles of licensing are increasing in popularity

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• patriotic duty to put backdoors in software (Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Monday September 04 2017, @03:21AM

  by canopic jug (3949) on Monday September 04 2017, @03:21AM (#563275) Journal

  and the backdoors in M$ stuff that Redmond has handed over to the NSA.

  I remember Ballmer saying something to that effect around 16 years ago after the Bush junta had ascended to power not long after they started to turn their attention to the antitrust case against M$. There were only a one or two articles mentioning it as an aside, and quietly at that, but from what I recall he was reported to have said something to the effect that it would be his (or M$) patriotic duty to put backdoors in software if called upon to do so. About a week and a half or two weeks later, the antitrust case was basically dropped in the US.

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