>> Because you want randos on the Internet but not big companies with lawyers who make their engineers actually read licenses to use your software
I don't understand this sentiment of just sticking it to big companies because they're big and employ lawyers. The problem is the opposite: when a company has no excuse to do scummy things because they can afford lawyers, but they do scummy things regardless. I'd love it if big companies embraced the GPL more. But if they just ignored it that would be terrible, and sometimes they do.
Sometimes hospitals have (on paper) a policy to ensure patients have been informed of and understood their rights, so they have you sign a form acknowledging this. That's a good thing! But in practice they often get an image of your signature from you and then add it to the form knowing full well you haven't seen it.
I feel like the attitude of this license is that it's cooler for randos to do the latter than for big companies to do the former. It's backwards if you actually care about the rule of law and equity.
I don't understand this sentiment of just sticking it to big companies because they're big and employ lawyers. The problem is the opposite: when a company has no excuse to do scummy things because they can afford lawyers, but they do scummy things regardless. I'd love it if big companies embraced the GPL more. But if they just ignored it that would be terrible, and sometimes they do.
Sometimes hospitals have (on paper) a policy to ensure patients have been informed of and understood their rights, so they have you sign a form acknowledging this. That's a good thing! But in practice they often get an image of your signature from you and then add it to the form knowing full well you haven't seen it.
I feel like the attitude of this license is that it's cooler for randos to do the latter than for big companies to do the former. It's backwards if you actually care about the rule of law and equity.