I will say, as I've grown older and more jaded, I've been finding the GPL more and more appealing...
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IDK but I agree with you about the GPL
If someone steals a GPL project what can be done to demonstrate that it's stolen and not just very similar but their own creation?
Often when binaries are decompiled specific internal structures and code can be exposed and that can be used for comparison to source code to make an argument in court. Thats established case law already.
Either way it involves the person's with the GPL copy right taking a company to court. IE openwrt comes from linksys taking the Linux kernel and BusyBox source. Both are GPL.
MIT is great for tiny scripts and the like, but any large project should be copyleft imo.
I agree; I fear that companies will screw over a permissively licensed project.
I think FOSS Game Engines should be copyleft.
How could companies screw over MIT-licensed projects though?
Cuck license
Same goes for BSD, Apache, etc
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