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0 pointsbananamogul17d ago0 comments

...and the main distros are enthusiastically adopting them.

Within a relatively short time frame, expect everything in your Linux distro other than the kernel to be MIT-licensed because everything that is FSF-maintained will be rewritten in Rust with the MIT license.

The kernel will then be next, though it'll take a longer timeframe.

The GPL just didn't win in the marketplace of ideas.

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wolvesechoes17d ago

People criticized Stallman et al. for being ideological, but popularity of permissive licenses is actually pure ideology, in Marxian sense - people doing without knowing, and conflating their interests with interests of big capital. You can see the same with people defending AI-laundering.

Stallman's proposal is opposite of ideology, it is conscious political project. And thus it is failing.

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