What an absolute shitshow

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    I disagree with MIT License being bad. I agree on all other fronts of your statements.

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        2 days ago

        Why do you think the MIT License is bad? I am not the one making the claim it being bad, so I’m not the on in defending position. It’s an open source license and I like to use it too (granted my work is just little small hobby tools). I think the MIT License has pros and cons, but isn’t straight a bad license in this context.

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          2 hours ago

          Because it isn’t a free software license. Software licensed by the MIT license can be copied and made into proprietary software. Since (I hope) we agree proprietary software should be minimised licensing under a free software license ensures big tech can’t make there own corporate software from it without ever giving back.

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            2 minutes ago

            It IS free software license. It just gives the freedom to turn it into proprietary too, in which case the new proprietary product is no longer licensed under MIT. Which in turn does not violate the MIT being free, as it became a different thing.

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      3 days ago

      The majority of project are MIT licensed and it’s not even close.