#Using bash on mac how to#
I get to choose for myself how to use it. If code is licensed under the Apache 2 license, I can copy it and I don't have to worry about somebody else deciding that I'm using it right, or not. If code is GPL and I don't use it the way somebody else said, they might accuse me of stealing it. If code is proprietary, and I don't use it the way somebody else said, they might accuse me of stealing it. With Apache 2 anybody can use it as they see fit, GPL people, BSD/MIT people, proprietary people. That's perfectly fair, as you otherwise describe, but it is a lie to say it means I can use it as I see fit. I can only use it narrowly within the terms of the license. If it is GPL, I can't do that, that's a false promise you're making. If code is licensed with the Apache 2 License, I can use it as I see fit. You were going good, but then you went right off the rails on this part.
#Using bash on mac software#
developers who are giving you their software to use or modify as you see fit. amass greater wealth and power that they will inevitably use to harm individuals and society, when I don't even get anything in return? Why would I want to help Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.,etc.,etc. But Apple is a wonderful example of why many people don't want to do so: Large corporations take the work, profit immensely from it, and give little if anything in return. You can still use, learn from, and even redistribute their program and its code under far more generous terms than you get with most software.Ĭould they be even more generous? Certainly, and the BSD and like-minded licenses do so. If you don't want to pay the price, don't use their code in your project, simple enough. So why do you say it's tyrannical that developers who are giving you their software to use or modify as you see fit, put a price on using their code in your own projects that you distribute. Just as must be done with GPLed code in order for the license to "infect" something new.Īs for tyranny - is it tyrannical that you can't take whatever you want from the store and leave without paying? Is it tyrannical that the bank won't give you however much money you want without expecting you to pay it back? Calling that infectious is like calling a heart transplant infectious - the heart isn't jumping from one host to another, it's being intentionally cut out of one person and put into another. What you can't do is steal the code for your own purposes without giving anything back. There's nothing "infectious" about it - you can use and distribute GPL programs alongside non-GPL programs with no problems. The GPL forces *developers* to not co-mingle borrowed code with their own, unless they want to give their code away under the same terms. Nobody is forcing *users* to do anything.
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