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We, as in developers, need to understand that permissive licenses are about "developer" freedom, and copyleft licenses are about "user" freedom. If someone doe
by bayindirh 1y ago
We, as in developers, need to understand that permissive licenses are about "developer" freedom, and copyleft licenses are about "user" freedom.
If someone doesn't want their code to be grabbed and ran away with it, they shall use (A)GPL.
Then, nobody can add a "secret sauce" and sit on top of your work and act like they have written all of it and make it proprietary.
Moreover, do not do copyright reassignments and with every new contributor, the license becomes more entrenched in your codebase.
We should stop demonizing copyleft licenses and romanticize permissive licenses. Every inconsiderately permissive licensed code butters corporations and is destined to be closed and their developers got exploited.
We should increase license literacy in Free Software.