Why I love the GPL
Saturday January 29, 2005 (08:00 AM GMT)
By: Joe Barr
http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/2141242
... The GPL provides a legal framework for an ever improving, ever free,
software infrastructure. ... it works.
The GPL makes those freedoms self-perpetuating by requiring that anyone
who obtains and redistributes GPLd software to release it under the same
terms.
The Linux kernel ... It's become the little OS who could, the bumblebee
who could fly, the impossible notion that a bunch of kids on the
Internet could create the most successful operating system in history ...
Freshmeat.net lists almost 36,000 projects covered by more than 50
different licenses. ... over 68% of those projects are licensed by the GPL.
The GPL is winning. And for that I love it all the more.
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