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I don't remember GitHub or Amazon advocating MIT over GPL. Feel free to prove me wrong by pointing out this massive amount of advocacy from "mega-clouds" that
by kjksf 7mo ago
I don't remember GitHub or Amazon advocating MIT over GPL.
Feel free to prove me wrong by pointing out this massive amount of advocacy from "mega-clouds" that changed people's minds.
The ads, the mailing list posts, social media comments. Anything at all you can trace to "mega-clouds" execs.
- LtWorf 7mo agoDoes the CEO of github count? https://youtu.be/-bAAlPXB2-c?t=180 https://youtu.be/-bAAlPXB2-c?t=180
- colesantiago 7mo agohttps://choosealicense.com/ https://choosealicense.com/ https://choosealicense.com/about/ https://choosealicense.com/about/ > "GitHub wants to help developers choose an open source license for their source code." This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.
- supern0va 7mo ago>This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago. So long ago, in fact, that it was five years before their acquisition by Microsoft.
- thayne 7mo agoI don't see anything on there saying that non-copyleft licenses are better, unless you are in an ecosystem that prefers a different license.
- Master_Odin 7mo agoThe site puts the MIT and GPLv3 front and center with a nice quick informative blurb on them. How are they pushing MIT over GPL?
- kpcyrd 7mo agoI think this was more about "please choose _any_ license" because of the problem outlined here: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1150/is-my-code-floss-just-because-it-is-published-it-on-github https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1150/is-my-co...