Would you be willing to indemnify a developer who is a contributor to a GPLv3 project so they could use that project code in a locked down device if necessary without release keys etc?
If so, great, the claim is FUD.
Reality is GPLv3 folks have lied about almost everything - Ubuntu had to get special private communication from FSF to be able to ship a GPLv3 bootloader etc.
And no, the license is pretty darn clear to most of us, even if you are a major contributor to a project, you CANNOT use that project code how you would like. This is not FUD, this is part of the license design. That is a major change from GPLv2 which is what we are discussing.
A reminder that developers, not users, pick the license of code. That is also fundamental to copyright law. You can write a license that makes developers pay users $1,000. Users might like that. Developers may not choose it. That is what is happening here in many cases. Developers are choosing to avoid GPL for other options.
Again - this conversation would be helped if someone had some data. Anecdotally I'm seeing lots more MIT / Apache stuff than GPLv3 stuff these days.
If so, great, the claim is FUD.
Reality is GPLv3 folks have lied about almost everything - Ubuntu had to get special private communication from FSF to be able to ship a GPLv3 bootloader etc.
And no, the license is pretty darn clear to most of us, even if you are a major contributor to a project, you CANNOT use that project code how you would like. This is not FUD, this is part of the license design. That is a major change from GPLv2 which is what we are discussing.
A reminder that developers, not users, pick the license of code. That is also fundamental to copyright law. You can write a license that makes developers pay users $1,000. Users might like that. Developers may not choose it. That is what is happening here in many cases. Developers are choosing to avoid GPL for other options.
Again - this conversation would be helped if someone had some data. Anecdotally I'm seeing lots more MIT / Apache stuff than GPLv3 stuff these days.