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- Sep 2024
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softwareengineering.stackexchange.com softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
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The point of GPL licenses is to protect the user of the software, not the developer. If you want "protection" as a developer, use MIT (disclaimer of warranty). GPL "infects" other parts of a system to combat a work-around which was used to violate the software freedom of the user, by firewalling sections of GPL'ed code from the rest of the system. If you don't care about your users' software freedom in the first place, then (L)GPL is the wrong choice.
- goal: protect user rights/freedoms
- non-goal: protect developer rights/freedoms
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.org
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If any of them is missing or inadequate, the program is proprietary (nonfree)
non-free software = proprietary software
missing any of these = non-conformant license (relative to a free software license)
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.org
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However, the presence of nonfree software in the computer is an obstacle to verifying that the computer is loyal, or making sure it remains so.
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For instance, the AMT functionality in recent Intel processors runs nonfree software that can talk to Intel remotely. Unless disabled, this makes the system disloyal.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Free/Open Licenses Non-free Licenses
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- Jan 2022
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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Unfortunately, the part that deals with SOAP transformations is not free.
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- Oct 2021
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Else, H. (2021). Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02895-8
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