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The choice often isn’t between having a given derivative work be permissively licensed or copyleft. It’s between having the derivative work exist at all or not.
by reshlo 5y ago
The choice often isn’t between having a given derivative work be permissively licensed or copyleft. It’s between having the derivative work exist at all or not.
As a software author, choosing a license that requires people to be subject to more conditions to use my software is giving them less freedom, not more. If someone makes a derivative work with a restrictive license, that doesn’t make my software any less free.
- fn-mote 5y ago> that doesn’t make my software any less free You might say it makes your software less yours, though. A restrictive license protects your interest in the code. After all, that's why companies are releasing their code under restrictive licenses. 100% agree there's a tradeoff of this with popularity, and it will never matter for almost everyone. But the people for whom it does matter get upset sometimes --- licensing is a choice that needs to be made with eyes wide open.