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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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• Re:Neither is very convincing (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday September 04 2017, @11:17AM

  by TheRaven (270) on Monday September 04 2017, @11:17AM (#563411) Journal

  Here is the list of packages built from the gcc source package: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gcc-7 [debian.org] [debian.org] . Going through that list, I can see language-specific compilers (gcc, g++, gccgo, etc), language-specific runtimes (libstdc++, libgnat, etc)

  I'll give you gccgo, but gcc, g++, gobjc and gobjc++ are basically the same code. In contrast, there is a single clang package, which provides C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++ compilers. Oh, and the only Objective-C runtime that appears to be packaged is the (GPL3 + linking exemption) one from gcc that supports a 15-year-old dialect of the language and not the (MIT) GNUstep one that supports all of the modern language features.

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