Yeah, but sometimes they do use (L)GPL software like the example of WINE above. They just make sure not to depend on it in any substancial way and just leech of other’s improvements or as in the case of CUPS hire the main dev just to quarantine him in a cellar or so somewhere until he resigns out of frustration.
LGPL is still permissive as far as I’m concerned! But yeah, I get your point. The reality is that corporations like Apple will never do anything but (being optimistic…) the bare legal minimum, and permissive licensing willingly and knowingly grants everyone the right to take your work, extend it, and then pretend it’s their own with nothing more than a footnote in a Credits text no one reads. It’s leechable by design.
Yeah, but sometimes they do use (L)GPL software like the example of WINE above. They just make sure not to depend on it in any substancial way and just leech of other’s improvements or as in the case of CUPS hire the main dev just to quarantine him in a cellar or so somewhere until he resigns out of frustration.
LGPL is still permissive as far as I’m concerned! But yeah, I get your point. The reality is that corporations like Apple will never do anything but (being optimistic…) the bare legal minimum, and permissive licensing willingly and knowingly grants everyone the right to take your work, extend it, and then pretend it’s their own with nothing more than a footnote in a Credits text no one reads. It’s leechable by design.
Good god, I despise corporations, but especially Apple.