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nikcub on Feb 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple’s great GPL purge

Have a look at the top projects on Github and note that most (all?) are MIT or BSD licesed:

https://github.com/popular/watched

Modern web developers don't seem to care and prefer to keep it simple. The GPL definitely hasn't adapted well to a web world.

streptomycin on Feb 7, 2012 [–]

Agreed. I think the only time I ever saw Stallman pussy out on something was removing the SaaS stuff from the GPL3 and separating it off into the AGPL3. Without even the FSF fully behind Free Software ideals in the web world, things seem quite stagnant on that front now.

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