Containers, the GPL, and copyleft: No reason for concern

Posted by bob on Jan 27, 2018 3:53 AM CST
Opensource.com; By Richard Fontana
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Though open source is thoroughly mainstream, new software technologies and old technologies that get newly popularized sometimes inspire hand-wringing about open source licenses. Most often the concern is about the GNU General Public License (GPL), and specifically the scope of its copyleft requirement, which is often described (somewhat misleadingly) as the GPL’s derivative work issue.

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