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What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 week ago by marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I would understand if Canonical want a new cow to milk, but why are developers even agreeing to this? Are they out of their minds?? Do they actually want companies to steal their code? Or is this some reverse-uno move I don't see yet? I cannot fathom any FOSS project not using the AGPL anymore. It's like they're painting their faces with "here, take my stuff and don't contribute anything back, that's totally fine"

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[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

For small programs the FSF/GNU even suggests considering not using the GPL https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html

[-] Bogus5553@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, and a cp or ls clone isn’t that meaningful to stick GPL to.

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