> The shape of the future is people are stopping feeding the GPL commons in favour of permissive licenses that the $$$ wants https://resources.whitesourcesoftwa

> The shape of the future is people are stopping feeding the GPL commons in favour of permissive licenses that the $$$ wants https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/o https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/o... shows over half of projects in 2019 are MIT /Apache vs GPL(s), and a steady decline in even GPL3 usage. Yes, that's how it looks. In the long term, I think that will turn out to be a Faustian bargain for users and hackers. It will be the world the commercial software devs want; a large pool of permissively licensed software that they can pick and choose from to assemble $$$ products (with a number of useful idiots and sometimes even businesses contributing to maintaining the underlying pieces), without having to worry about contributing anything back. But the dream of a Free Software computing experience, where you can inspect and modify every part of the software you run, will have died.