SwooshBakery624 [they/them]

because just as bad actors can abuse a permissive license, bad actors

You are right, but with copyleft you at least have legal mechanisms to force the company to comply with the license. With MIT or BSD there aren’t any, because permissive licences don’t enforce any such restrictions.

I think we 99% agree though and I love copyleft.

Yup. And I love copyleft too.

A world where we can share advancements and technologies freely with one another and innovate based on the prior work of others is a world where a shit load of cool stuff gets done.

And how does a copyleft license get in the way of that? On the contrary, with the GPL, I can be sure that the technology and code will be freely shared. Freely as in freedom, that’s the whole point.

I really don’t understand why someone would use a permissive license in the first place. Especially a project this big.

I hope they are going to use a copyleft license and not a permissive one.

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