Jimmie Houchin wrote:
You say it defends rights. It just removed my right to license my software how I wish. The only way to preserve that option is to not use GPL software.
Now, should I choose to not use GPL software. How has that benefited anybody in the GPL ecosystem? Not at all.
We like to talk about the bad big corporation stealing our hard work and our software and making millions of dollars. Yes big corp. prefers MIT/BSD. They also prefer to release their own hard work and dollars as MIT/BSD licensed software. It isn't as if it is all take on big corporation's side. They prefer the permissive license both as author and user.
MIT/BSD simply says you the user may do anything you want. Just don't blame me (author) for anything. And give author(s) credit for what they have created.
I would rather have people, businesses believe in open source software and use and release open source software because they are believers and not because some license forced them to do so. That is how MIT/BSD software is. And in reality it is how all authors of open source software are regardless of license. They do it because the believe in it. It is wrong to think that MIT authors don't believe in the freedoms of open source software. We do. We want the user to reciprocate because they believe, not because we forced them. You can't force anybody. They always have the choice of choosing something different, or writing it themselves.
+1
Jimmie
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