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You mostly associate GPL with capitalism?

The GNU created the GPL and licensed most of their software under it. I can't think of an organization less interested in capitalism. Rather the opposite because the viral nature of the license.

Linus picked the GPL to be less commercial/restrictive than the Minix source code.




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