ONLamp: ESR: “We Don’t Need the GPL Anymore”

“Why did you say we don’t need the GPL
anymore?

“It’s 2005, not 1985. We’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years.
The fears that originally led to the reciprocity stuff in GPL are
nowadays, at least in my opinion, baseless. People who do what the
GPL tries to prevent (e.g., closed source forks of open source
projects) wind up injuring only themselves. They trap themselves
unto competing with a small in-house development group against the
much larger one in the parent open source project, and
failing…”

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