GPLv3 controversy Free and open-source software

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while copyright primary legal mechanism foss authors use ensure license compliance software, other mechanisms such legislation, patents, , trademarks have implications well. in response legal issues patents , digital millennium copyright act (dmca), free software foundation released version 3 of gnu public license in 2007 explicitly addressed dmca , patent rights.


after development of gnu gplv3 in 2007, fsf (as copyright holder of many pieces of gnu system) updated many of gnu programs licenses gplv2 gplv3. on other hand, adoption of new gpl version heavily discussed in foss ecosystem, several projects decided against upgrading. instance linux kernel, busybox project, advfs, blender, , vlc media player decided against adopting gplv3.


apple, user of gcc , heavy user of both drm , patents, switched compiler in xcode ide gcc clang, foss compiler under permissive license. lwn speculated apple motivated partly desire avoid gplv3. samba project switched gplv3, apple replaced samba in software suite closed-source, proprietary software alternative.








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