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BRM wrote:

Even the GPL does not provide that right. If a company wanted it could
take a 
GPL product, make whatever changes it wanted, and distribute it internally
to 
itself without ever contributing back to the community as a whole.
Likewise, it could also distribute that same project to its customers,
making 
the source available to them and them alone. The community will may never
see 
any changes from them; yet that is perfectly valid under all Open Source 
licenses - even the GPL.

Nothing forces people to work with the community. No license can do that.
So 
please do yourself a favor and put that notion - the myth - aside.


So basically GPL is worth nothing because no one can force anybody to
contribute back?

Is that an argument in favor of convincing developers to use the Apache
license (because they aren't getting anything back anyway) or to simply stop
contributing to Open Source projects?

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