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Software, in general, has a lot more people using it than writing it. Successful software, anyway. And super permissive licenses like MIT hurt developers too,
by CydeWeys 7y ago
Software, in general, has a lot more people using it than writing it. Successful software, anyway.
And super permissive licenses like MIT hurt developers too, because it means I oftentimes can't see the source code that someone else has modified, even though it would help me a lot to be able to do so. With GPL-licensed software, I am always guaranteed this freedom.
- jimmaswell 7y agoThose modifications would probably never have been made if the license was GPL because they would have just rewritten their own entire thing from scratch or licensed something else.