Permissive licensing affirmation…
It is self-defeating to proprietize open source software given that your team will always be smaller than the global community. Taking something that dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people have worked on and effectively saying you control it is at best naive, and at worse, a jerk move, event when you have the right to.
To violate a copyleft license is an even jerkier-move because you’re admitting you’re a jerk.
Also don’t forget that most permissive licenses require you to give credit where credit is due.
Some copyleft advocates call permissive licensing, “emotional copyleft”, and maybe they’re right, but show me the numbers on how it is any less emotional or less effective at spreading free software and the software freedom behind it.
Is there progress to be made? Absolutely, but nearly every non-Windows system and appliance now runs some form of Unix-derived system.
That said, we truly want software freedom, we all have to vote with our wallets AT SCALE. Governments and big businesses need to demand transparent systems.
After all… Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software.
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