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martyb
on Sunday September 03 2017, @11:51AM
from the can-you-have-copyleft-without-copyright? dept.
from the can-you-have-copyleft-without-copyright? dept.
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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(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Monday September 04 2017, @10:42AM
Yes. That one from three years ago also sources the same FUD factory refuted in the article (and debconf video): Black Duck. For that one, it even used data from M$ Ohloh.
Having been founded by and stocked by M$ staff, nothing that comes out of Black Duck is going to be even slightly favorable towards copyleft or, especially, the GPL. They've been so loud about it that back in 2012 at the green site Bruce Perens called out Black Duck on their bullshit [techrights.org]. Perens, in addition to having technical chops, has long been an expert on licensing and even went as far as to be a co-founder of the Open Source Inititative. He saw (sees?) OSS as a stepping stone to transition businesses over to Free Sofware.
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