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I'm not particularly fond of cuck licenses.
What's wrong with BSD?
A concise summary: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Cuck_license
The trope namer: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuck-licenses/
That actually does describe the class of licences fairly accurately. Companies specifically love cuck licenses because of their unfree propagation properties.
Anti Commercial-AI license
what's with this language?
Pretty sure it’s a shock and awe strategy by the author to make the term stick. And it worked.
It works to make others dismiss you and your arguments - I'll never take anyone seriously who decides to express themselves like this.
In case you haven’t noticed, I didn’t coin the term.
Yet you choose to use it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Cuck+%E2%80%9Clicense%E2%80%9D
The web did.
But don’t let that stop you on your crusade to clean the web of foul words. I wish you all the best.