Which Road To Take?
It could be just me, but why does the thought of adding a clause to the GPL 3 just to keep deals like the Microsoft-Novell collaboration from happening seem vaguely… wrong?
I think what’s making me uncomfortable is something I recall from Government class in high school–that to create a law against one person or group in the US is supposed to be unconstitutional. Granted, writing a license like GPL 3 is not like writing a law, because unlike a law, people have a choice to use software licensed under GPL 3 or not. It’s not universally applied to users of any software, so it can be avoided, if the user so chooses.
So why, deep in the corners of my brain, does this just feel bad?
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