<story><title>Apple&apos;s Great GPL Purge (2014)</title><url>http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greyman</author><text>&amp;gt; GPL is not about maximizing adoption, it&amp;#x27;s about maximizing freedom of your work and anything based upon it.&lt;p&gt;Yes, but you should add that you are talking about the RMS definition of freedom, not about the word freedom as it is generally understood.</text></item><item><author>candiodari</author><text>GPL is not about maximizing adoption, it&amp;#x27;s about maximizing freedom of your work and anything based upon it. It&amp;#x27;s about not having your work just stolen, embraced and extended, monopolized, and disappeared.</text></item><item><author>payne92</author><text>I think GPL has served its purpose, leaving a healthy ecosystem of open source software along with professional acceptance of the model.&lt;p&gt;Now, paradoxically, GPL is less free than many open source licenses.  The GPL restrictions will limit adoptions, as we&amp;#x27;re seeing here.&lt;p&gt;Stated differently, GPL was an important starting &amp;quot;assist&amp;quot; that&amp;#x27;s now slowing us down.  It&amp;#x27;s time to turn it off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kzrdude</author><text>The assertion that there is one general and correct notion of freedom is dubious when we hear &lt;i&gt;freedom&lt;/i&gt; being shouted misguidedly all the time (politics stuff).</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple&apos;s Great GPL Purge (2014)</title><url>http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greyman</author><text>&amp;gt; GPL is not about maximizing adoption, it&amp;#x27;s about maximizing freedom of your work and anything based upon it.&lt;p&gt;Yes, but you should add that you are talking about the RMS definition of freedom, not about the word freedom as it is generally understood.</text></item><item><author>candiodari</author><text>GPL is not about maximizing adoption, it&amp;#x27;s about maximizing freedom of your work and anything based upon it. It&amp;#x27;s about not having your work just stolen, embraced and extended, monopolized, and disappeared.</text></item><item><author>payne92</author><text>I think GPL has served its purpose, leaving a healthy ecosystem of open source software along with professional acceptance of the model.&lt;p&gt;Now, paradoxically, GPL is less free than many open source licenses.  The GPL restrictions will limit adoptions, as we&amp;#x27;re seeing here.&lt;p&gt;Stated differently, GPL was an important starting &amp;quot;assist&amp;quot; that&amp;#x27;s now slowing us down.  It&amp;#x27;s time to turn it off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>GPL preserves the hacker&amp;#x27;s freedom to modify the code in the hardware they own. It doesn&amp;#x27;t preserve a corporation&amp;#x27;s freedom to take the code, package it up and sell it in some other hardware. Which licenses are more free? Depends who you are and what you&amp;#x27;re trying to do.</text></comment>