Good link Matthias!
Great presentation, even when taking the pragmatic view. Apart from the community-statement, I'd like to highlight his statement that copyleft stimulates collaboration, whereas non-copyleft projects require committees and other bureaucratic organization-parts to avoid partners splitting off and doing their own thing, not contributing back as a result.
Quick URL to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIEDNyZOkA Conclusions start around 24mins in.
I'm preparing a presentation for the Dutch T-Dose conference which includes this topic as well. Glad other people are noticing the same symptoms. http://www.t-dose.org/2015/talks/open-source-has-won-now-what
Regards, Nico (NL)
On do, 2015-10-29 at 17:53 +0100, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
LWN has an interesting article "Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft" https://lwn.net/Articles/660428/. It is about a talk by HP's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink:
He then ended the session with an extended appeal to move the open-source software industry away from permissive licenses like Apache 2.0 and toward copyleft licenses like the GPL. Not doing so, he said, puts the FOSS community at just as much risk of collapse as license proliferation threatened to in years past.
Regards, Matthias