Article Source The Open Road
July 15, 2009, 8:07 am
July 15, 2009, 8:07 am
If most developers contribute to open-source projects because they want to, rather than because they’re forced to, why do we have the GNU General Public License?
That’s the question that hit me last night as I tried to sleep in the shadow of Richard Stallman’s MIT. Stallman, of course, originated the GPL, a brilliant way to turn copyright on its head in order to force software to remain open…
