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Everything in the npm ecosystem pretty much has to be MIT, or none of it would work. You could poison most of the web dev ecosystem by changing the license on
by thrower123 5y ago
Everything in the npm ecosystem pretty much has to be MIT, or none of it would work.
You could poison most of the web dev ecosystem by changing the license on a handful of packages to GPL...
- YetAnotherNick 5y agoWhy? You could use GPL package in MIT licensed library.
- CodeWriter23 5y agoYes and then anyone using said library would have to open source their work.
- d3nj4l 5y agoThe GPL wouldn't affect server-side JS (you'd need the AGPL for that), but client-side JS would have to be released under the GPL in un-minified form.