“The discussion and debate over the wording of GPL3 has crept
into the mainstream tech news, which is a bit surprising. After
all, it’s just a software license. There are hundreds of software
licenses, and in my opinion the ones that should be making the news
and generating outrage are the standard EULAs (End-User License
Agreements) that infest commercial, closed-sourced software. These
EULAs disclaim all responsibility, restrict customer’s rights
beyond what the law permits, and are often packaged in ways that
makes them difficult to find, let alone read or ‘agree’ to. But
unlike the closed-source proprietary world, the free and open
source software community conducts its business in public. Often
noisily, or as I like to say ‘we will end no whine before its
time…'”