I guess I fail to appreciate the burden of having to write code to benefit users at all levels of skill and financial capacity.
Sorry.
@🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 X11/Xorg used the MIT license, a permissive license. Wayland, also using MIT license, was written because X11/Xorg wasn't easy to adapt to modern graphics hardware.
If you are using libraries and not checking the license of the code and what it includes, you are setting yourself up for trouble anyway. What if the library you use, used a library that requires a royalty or some flat fee. I've never encountered a problem where I'm in violation of a license because a library I use is GPL. gettext is a GPL library and I think mysql had one but I can't think of another that I've encountered.
I get that you don't like GPL and wish people would use a permissive license. Maybe more people are using permissive licenses now and you will get the permissive world you want but I don't see GPL as holding back software development.
If you are using libraries and not checking the license of the code and what it includes, you are setting yourself up for trouble anyway. What if the library you use, used a library that requires a royalty or some flat fee. I've never encountered a problem where I'm in violation of a license because a library I use is GPL. gettext is a GPL library and I think mysql had one but I can't think of another that I've encountered.
I get that you don't like GPL and wish people would use a permissive license. Maybe more people are using permissive licenses now and you will get the permissive world you want but I don't see GPL as holding back software development.
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