License ZING!

Published: March 29, 2017, 12:11 p.m.

b"It's been a while since I've spoken about software licensing. If you've been in the community for any appreciable amount of time, you'll see that there are two licensing-based brainworms that tend to crop up on a regular basis. The first is the fear that some company might swoop in and buy our friendly little open source program and put it behind a wall. The other is the notion that free software licenses like the GPL are harmful to the program. Although there's a rational background for either of these positions, I think that they're both ill-founded."