• Emi
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    1 year ago

    MIT≠FOS

    GNU is Free and forever free software… MIT not so much.

    https://fossbytes.com/open-sources-license-type/

    Point being, any forks of GNU will have a free version available, MIT carries no such limitation… making it a corpo favorite.

    You can call it open source, but Free and Open source is questionable.

    • @jmk1ng@programming.dev
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      21 year ago

      I feel like we’re splitting hairs here. MIT is an extremely permissible license. The fact someone could take this and make a closed source fork doesn’t affect the existence or openness of the MIT licensed releases