cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/261746
I thought companies could bribe through the legal system, so why not licenses?
The thing is that Copyleft is using the same legislation that corporations use to protect themselves. So spending a lot in lawyers for this might set a precedent that could backfire.
Also… I don’t think there’s a lot of incentive for them to do this, because if they have that much money they might as well just make their own software and have better control over it. Maybe use instead non-copyleft licenses like MIT, like Google sometimes has done.
It’s very likely there are already many GPL violations out there that we’ll never know about due to obfuscation or them simply being hard to identify, but nobody has the time, the money or the power to actually try and challengue a corporation about it and come out unscathed.
They already are:
Yep. I’m not surprised.
I’m thinking of companies systematically nullifying copyleft licenses by default.
Check out my speech .
Someone from libreplanet deliberately sabotaged it by placing my video exactly on important part of the slides. According to a fellow named Devin Ulibarri, it is a “technical error” and they deeply apologize for it. How thoughtful! The content is still good and you should get the point.
