Glad someone mentioned the gift economy. So much discussion around FOSS reminds me of ideas from gift economy. E.g. the extent to which a culture assumes a gift

Glad someone mentioned the gift economy. So much discussion around FOSS reminds me of ideas from gift economy. E.g. the extent to which a culture assumes a gift is part of gift exchange, with some expectation of reciprocity. Or the concept of “giving while keeping”. I think both ideas exist in copyleft licenses, but were lost in the more permissive MIT-style licenses. Sometimes I wonder if maintainers feel burned because they use more permissive licenses, which might be standard in their ecosystem, but unconsciously have a different gift culture.