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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 20:20:48 JST翠星石 @aral >Corporations (like Google, etc.) expressly have policies where they will not touch GPL code with a five foot pole.
That is incorrect.
google is quite happy with the requirements of the GPLv2 and GPLv3, considering that they distribute Android (which contains Linux) and use a lot of GNU software on their servers.
Although, google has a policy where they won't even use internally software licensed under the AGPLv3, as their business model is about taking free software and making it function equivalent to proprietary software with spyware and a universal back door by making it SaaSS: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
google does quite enjoy the freedom of free software, but you can't have it of course.
>Mozilla uses a neoliberal license
Firefox is actually tri-licensed under the MPLv2.0, GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1, although the MPL allows making the software proprietary.