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You're forgetting to mention that open source != free software. I have no problem with the license itself, because it maintains the four freedoms. So from a free software perspective it's fine, and that's the spirit of GPL. However, if I was a business owner, I would never run software under that license because it may create unforeseeable license conflicts. As far as I can see (correct me if I'm wrong), any software…
I'm pretty sure that the new license does not "maintain the four freedoms". I don't know if the FSF will approve of this new license, however by the Free Software definition it should be even more damning, first of all because it violates Freedom 0. The corresponding rule in OSI's definition is less strict ;-) The " spirit of the GPL " has nothing to do with this license. The GPL is just a "copyright license", meanin…
Re: Making the GPL more scary
#151I think you're right and I was wrong. It does violate freedom 0 and probably will not be approved for that reason by FSF.