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It's not about being more or less free. You should ask the question "freedom for whom?" People who use Copyleft licenses want the users of the software to have
by M2Ys4U 12y ago
It's not about being more or less free. You should ask the question "freedom for whom?"
People who use Copyleft licenses want the users of the software to have freedom. People who use permissive licenses want the developers of the software to have freedom.
- diminish 12y agoPermissive licenses are good for commercial purposes too in embedding them into proprietary software which is freedom for commercial purposes. That is why legal departments love the freedom given by permissive licenses.
- dllthomas 12y agoStrictly speaking, copy-left licenses can be applied to commercial purposes. Though certainly there are many purposes with which they are incompatible, and many of those are commercial in nature.