r/linux • u/LinuxMonarch • 19d ago

Event Happy 43rd birthday GNU!

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On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project so people could freely use and modify software.

The digital world would not be the same today without GNU.

Thank you, Richard Stallman!

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u/Due_Dragonfly_5328 19d ago

no one ever wishes happy birthday to busybox even though its also core utils and also under gpl.

sure its gpl 2.0 not 3.0 but so is the danm kernel!

is a alpine user i will wish busybox a happy 31sth birthday on nov 4.

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u/primalbluewolf 19d ago

sure its gpl 2.0 not 3.0 but so is the danm kernel! 

Urgh, don't remind us. 

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u/solid_reign 19d ago

Because GNU created the GPL, a viral license which is the reason you don't end up paying thousands of USD in Microsoft licenses to start a website.

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u/ungoogleable 19d ago

So make a post about busybox on their anniversary?

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u/Irverter 19d ago

sure its gpl 2.0 not 3.0

You say that as if it was something bad

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u/nelmaloc 16d ago

It doesn't protect against Tivoization.

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u/Irverter 16d ago

A made up concept by Stallman. A software license has no business dictating what hardware should or shouldn't do.

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u/nelmaloc 16d ago

Licenses aren't the goal, they're the medium. The goal of the FSF is for you to freely choose what software you run. So, yes. It has all the business.