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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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This should be avoided like the plague because of the choice to use MIT over GPL.
Any work dedicated to this can and will be stolen by corporations without giving back if they find it useful. This is what happened with Sony and Apple and their respective operating systems. They chose to base them on BSD so they could steal work and not give back to the public.
Do not be fooled.
"Here you can use this as you like, no questions asked"
"Hey! Why did you use that in a way that I told you you could!?!?"
i think the argument here is more that saying "you can use this however you like, no questions asked" is a bad idea because it allows corporations to approriate the work
But it's not stealing then is it?