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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_.