rintolang / rinto

In-development open source programming language based on C/C++
https://rintolang.github.io
GNU General Public License v3.0
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License under GPL 3.0 #3

Closed zeim839 closed 2 years ago

zeim839 commented 2 years ago

GPL 3.0 is a "copyleft" license that respects software freedoms. From GNU What is Copyleft?:

Proprietary software developers use copyright to take away the users' freedom; we use copyright to guarantee their freedom. That's why we reverse the name, changing “copyright” into “copyleft.”

GPL necessitates that any reproductions or redistributions of the rinto programming language are released publicly as free software and with the same license. We could also use MIT (which would still be "open source") but this wouldn't enforce free software principles.

Let me know what you think.