Computerworld Australia: Is the GPL Good for the Software Industry?

“No

“The General Public Licence (GPL) is not good for the software
industry for a variety of reasons. These include:

• “The GPL is full of contradictions and could be interpreted in
  a number of different ways. At the outset, it bears noting that the
  GPL is as much a political manifesto as it is a quasi-legal
  document. It is replete with ambiguities. More importantly, it has
  never been tested in court. Nobody knows what judges or juries will
  do when presented with the GPL and asked to find that someone
  violated its terms, or when someone tries to use it as a defence to
  a copyright or patent infringement claim…”

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