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MIT license is a big no. Folks still don't understand why copyleft is so important nowadays.
by cakrome 5y ago
MIT license is a big no. Folks still don't understand why copyleft is so important nowadays.
- wmf 5y agoAnd you're not educating them.
- ivegotnoaccount 5y agoOr maybe they do understand the licence and simply decided they did not agree with its ethics.
- strken 5y agoThe MIT license is better than any proprietary software license, yet MIT-licensed software attracts so many more negative license-related comments than proprietary software. Seems a bit counterproductive.
- drog 5y agoI think its because those who license software with MIT where GPL could be used are considered "traitors" and as some people believe "traitors are worse than enemies.
- cakrome 5y agoFalse equivalency. I'm comparing permissive licenses with copyleft licenses. I'm not comparing MIT license with any proprietary licenses. And if uutils is proprietary, you won't see this discussion happn at all.
- staticassertion 5y ago> Folks still don't understand why copyleft is so important nowadays. True, it's incredible how badly the FSF has done in terms of actually marketing their licensing structure. At this point I doubt most developers care much.