Most people who decide to use the GPL will simply go for GPL v3 because it's newer. Linus Torvalds has criticized GPLv3 several times, especially about the Tivoization clause, but he doesn't care about freedom so maybe we shouldn't care what he thinks about licenses.None of us wants devices where we can't install our choice of software on it, so the GPLv3 does actually make sense, though I still have to ask - which of the two licenses are better, and why?
tmk for most lay people the GPL3 is just like GPL2, except torrent downloads are forbidden for binaries because they distribute them without code, and cloud hosted GPL3 software has limits because the FSF never saw those threats back then.Other then that its a simple contract saying credit the previous author(s) and provide the code if the binaries are released. 99% of developers only only care about two things, only technical autist will pay attention to anything beyond that. I know GPL2 and GPL3 both say when binaries are released code that directly interacts with GPL2-3 code it must also be open source, but I think the GPL1 is the only one with a noticable difference that says all code in the entire program must be open sourced even if a tiny gpl library is used.The point is 99% of users can't even tell the difference between GPL and MPL and aren't going to enforce it unless they don't have the code.
>>107888062>GPLv2 vs GPLv3what license you choose does not matter. your code is probably shit and I don't want to use it. on the off chance that you wrote good code and I want to use it, then I'll use and modify and republish it however I want, and you won't do shit. You won't even bother submitting a DMCA to ShitHub. You probably won't even find out that I've ripped your code and put it in my project.If you believe otherwise, consider that I'm using pirated software from about 10 different corporations and none of them are gonna do jack shit.
>>107888062Linus is a lefty cuck "vibe coder" now, his opinion on the license is irrelevant.
GPL is obsolete let's you get completely cucked by SaaS companiesUse AGPL if you want any meaningful protection
>>107888635>>>/pol/
>>107888699YWNBAW.
GPLv3 isn't restrictive enough against companies.
