• 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.

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        1 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