> The curious thing (and developers have the right) is that permissive licenses, like MIT, are growing every year while copyleft licenses like the GPL are decre

> The curious thing (and developers have the right) is that permissive licenses, like MIT, are growing every year while copyleft licenses like the GPL are decreasing in popularity. Not very surprising given the sizeable army of all the “developer evangelists”, “developer advocates”, and “devrel people” who have been quite vocal on the gpl-bad-mit-good stance, all the while being on Big Tech’s dime, one way or another. Why would Big Tech want to promote this view so much? Commoditize your complement, that’s why.