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I honestly believe that proliferation of permissive non-copyleft open source licensing is what has harmed the free software movement the most. GPL used to be standard, but it's long been overtaken by short, easy to understand, do what you want licenses.



It doesn't help that you have people like the CEO of github having a keynote saying to use MIT license.

It has all been a concerted effort to convince people that to be relevant they needed to use MIT license (so that they could be taken advantage of).


>> It doesn't help that you have people like the CEO of github having a keynote saying to use MIT license.

Really? Github? Owned by Microsoft right? I wonder why they like MIT licenses....


I think it was before that https://youtu.be/-bAAlPXB2-c?t=178




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