Should everything developed or funded by Decentraland Foundation & DAO be GNU A-GPL3?

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by 0x598f8af1565003ae7456dac280a18ee826df7a2c (pablo)

Some important software we all know is under the license GNU GPL, like Blender, WordPress, Telegram, etc.

Currently all repositories of decentraland github account are under Apache 2.0 License. This proposal is to make the change to GNU GPL. Also for any DAO funded proposal from now on.

For people unaware what it means, I copy paste an answer in other post to add this License as option to platform contributions:

Imagine you make an open-source tool under Apache 2, Microsoft can take it, modify it, and sell as own non open-source private product, they just need to notice the use of your tool. with AGPL-3, Microsoft would be enforced to keep the same license and be open-source with any modification of it, or any product using it as a dependency. with AGPL-3, if someone forks it, and make modifications, it’s mandatory that the product with modifications is open-source also with same license, cannot be private. Unless you are the author; you dont need any license if you are already the author I think. Keep in mind that although GNU GPL is quite restrictive, it still allows bussiness like education or plugins for Blender, Wordpress, etc. Also with different licenses.

You can check also:

https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/apache-license-2-0-apache-2-0

https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-gpl-3

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