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Permissiveness is relative, so in relation to MIT/BSD/Apache, it is not.

• pama 1y ago
  As a user of code I feel it is more permissive to me to see the code. As a licenser of code I want what is best for me and for others as a user and future developer. Others are free to do anything as long as they dont remove the license and the modified code if they release a software. If one wanted a different linguistic of pseudo philosophical spin, one could argue that a society would be more permissive than ours in a similar sense that MIT is more permissive than GNU, if it allowed free killing of random people for no reason. Nobody wants to live in such a society and it would not develop as fast as our society. I want to live in a society that permits collaboration, editing, and modification of software I use under the guarantee of the license.
  • nu11ptr 1y ago
    > As a user of code I feel it is more permissive to me to see the code. As a licenser of code I want what is best for me and for others as a user and future developer. That is a fair point. I admit I'm speaking purely from a selfish dev perspective. I am glad there are other licenses available, and that people are free to choose what fits them. I myself simply won't use GPL code, however, for the reasons I've specified.