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Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
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16 November 2025
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Making licenses suddenly commercial for big entities? You are forcing people to go back through the Procurement process. They will shift over time back to a FOSS solution, even if it is less good.
7 July 2025
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Permissive licences are the better way to release free software and free content, because they maximise adoption.On changing their mind
Historically, I was a fan of the permissive approach (eg. my blog is under the WTFPL). More recently, I am warming up to the copyleft approach.
26 September 2024
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A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.Their words
If WP Engine wants to find another open source project with a more permissive license and no trademarks, they are free to do so; if they want to benefit from the WordPress community, then they need to respect WordPress trademark and IP.
19 April 2024
From one piece Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Copyleft does not impose restrictions, but it does impose obligations. The obligations exist to guarantee rights to the users of the software – in other words, to ensure freedoms.
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korrents.com
No free or open source licence may restrict what the software is used for, however objectionable the use.Their words
No such restrictions are found in free or open source software licenses, be they permissive or copyleft – all FOSS licenses permit the use of the software for any purpose without restriction.
22 March 2024
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In short summary, the licenses limit the freedoms of what one can do with the software in order for Redis Labs to be solely enriched, while asking for volunteer labor, and having already
21 December 2023
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The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.
29 June 2023
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korrents.com
Utilitarianism is an abhorrent ideology, because it licenses killing three people to save a thousand.Their words
Utilitarianism is an abhorrent ideology. Well, yeah, we’re going to kill those three people to save a thousand, of course, right.
18 December 2021
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Free software is designed to be used commercially, but you have to do it correctly. This is a resource which is made available to companies who want to exploit it, but they must do so according to the terms of the licenses.
5 November 2021
19 October 2021
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The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death.
18 January 2021
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korrents.com
Licensing is a political and social construct, so an unlicensed profession can still be doing engineering.Their words
licenses exist because we are part of society and have legal requirements, not because they are essential to what it means to do engineering
1 October 2020
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