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The very name "permissive" licenses is problematic, because it steers the discussion towards the point of view of software middlemen, not of users. From the po
by enriquto 1y ago
The very name "permissive" licenses is problematic, because it steers the discussion towards the point of view of software middlemen, not of users.
From the point of view of a user, a copylefted software allows the user to do more things: the license grants them permission to see and change the source code of the software, no matter how they got it. With so-called permissive software, the user may be stripped of this permission by third parties.
- immibis 1y agoAnother name for "permissive license" is "cuck license". Hopefully I don't have to explain the analogy.