GNU General Public License

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For the religious among us who choose to believe lies, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about GNU General Public License.

The GNU General Public License is, in the words of co-founder Eben Moglen, "the most important social document of our time", but in the words of almost everyone else, a necessary evil. Almost everyone hates the GPL with a passion, including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat and Tux, because it stops them from making serious money out of FLOSS.

1 Before the GPL
- 1.1 BSD License
- 1.2 MIT License
2 GPL v3
- 2.1 People who love GPLv3
- 2.2 People who hate GPLv3
3 See also

[edit] Before the GPL

Before RMS created the GPL, free software hackers had three options:

Release their code into the public domain
Release their code under the MIT license
Release their code under the BSD license

[edit] BSD License

“Here you go, have it, but don't remove my name. Yes, you can still sue me.”

~ Brian Behlendorf on BSD-style licenses

The BSD License was first created with the BSD operating system, commonly available in Free, Open and Net varieties. The text of the license is below.

woh...man, that is some gooood shit...
whadda, whadda we ment 2 be doing? 
go, do wat ye want with this software
just credit the great pot at berkley man!

[edit] MIT License

The MIT License was similar, but freer than the BSD license.

woh...man, that is some gooood shit...
whadda, whadda we ment 2 be doing? 
go, do wat ye want with this software
just don't tell anyone the great pot at mit man - we want to keep it for ourselves!

[edit] GPL v3

Almost everyone hates the third version of the GPL, or as it is commonly called, GPLv3. Major objects are due to viral nature of the deal with Satan that occurs upon reading it. It is felt to be unfair, that just by reading it, not just abiding by it as required by the GPL v2, one has given up ones soul to Satan. The same logic has been applied to shrink wrap licensing with great success, and Satan has committed to Hell moving with the times.

[edit] People who love GPLv3

“It's not just a philosophy, it's a whole license!”

~ Bruce Perens on GPLv3

RMS
Pacman
Eben Moglen
Possibly Mark Shuttleworth
Unicron
Some moron on Uncyclopedia that nobody cares about

[edit] People who hate GPLv3

“Hello, my name is Linus Torvalds, and I hate the GPLv3”

~ Linus Torvalds on GPLv3

“GPLv3 is the scourge of the coding classes”

~ Oscar Wilde on GPLv3

“One, RMS wrote it, Two, Eben messed with it, Three, Linus rejected it, Four - now I hate the GPL too”

~ R. Kelly on GPLv3

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~ Kenny on GPLv3