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Exactly, you choose the MIT license over the GPL because you are explicitly ok with this scenario. It's like the entire point.

• jordigh 9y ago
  You can sell GPLed software too. Allowing commercial use is part of the definition of free software and open source. People sell phones with Android in them; Red Hat sells lots more.
  • opportune 9y ago
    True, not sure why but I guess I thought it was implied that the "malicious maintainer" would take the software closed course.
    • mcguire 9y ago
      ... which is explicitly okey-dokey with the MIT license, but not the GPL.