The person who responded made provably false statements. I know they are false, because I went to look it up; which is outlined in my “[whooped] out references”.
GPL is virally open source, because code using it needs to also be open source.
According to your comment, that doesn’t apply to BSD, so BSD isn’t virally open source, and the claim is true.
The reason some consider this better is because a company can’t fork the code, keeping it private, improving their version with paid workforce while also merging in changes to the original project, thus ending up with a superior version that they can then sell for profit, to no benefit of the opensource version or the people contributing to it.
There’s more reasons, and a whole ideological side, but I think that’s the main practical reason for using copyleft licenses, and a big one.
You asked a simple question about “better” which is pretty subjective for whooping out the references along accusations of falsehood.
“virally open source”
Which answered the original question quite succinctly. I wish you would have read more carefully before…
I asked what the OP felt was better about GPLv3.
The person who responded made provably false statements. I know they are false, because I went to look it up; which is outlined in my “[whooped] out references”.
You still don’t read.
Enlighten me; what is it I’m missing?
GPL is virally open source, because code using it needs to also be open source.
According to your comment, that doesn’t apply to BSD, so BSD isn’t virally open source, and the claim is true.
The reason some consider this better is because a company can’t fork the code, keeping it private, improving their version with paid workforce while also merging in changes to the original project, thus ending up with a superior version that they can then sell for profit, to no benefit of the opensource version or the people contributing to it.
There’s more reasons, and a whole ideological side, but I think that’s the main practical reason for using copyleft licenses, and a big one.