| ▲ | kykat 5 hours ago | |
There would be no open source without the gpl | ||
| ▲ | fulafel 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
The GPL was historically of course a counter-reaction to copyrightability of code. Hence "copyleft" etc. | ||
| ▲ | red_admiral an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
MIT and BSD are doing just fine. The 25519 crypto package that's built into practically everything these days (SSH, TLS, most e2e messaging) was released as both a spec and a C reference implementation _in the public domain_. | ||