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Getting Forked by Microsoft
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Dude used MIT license without knowing why GPL exists, then got upset. If you use MIT, you use it because you absolutely do not care if your work is appropriated by others, especially corporations.
It's like he put furniture on the curb with a "free" sign on it and now is upset his stuff is being sold at an antique store.
He has no reason to be salty because he had in effect told Microsoft to take everything and don't give anything back. So yeah, he should change it to GPL like yesterday. GPL was created because of the problem he has now faced.
Sounds like it wouldn't matter which licence he used. Shitty behaviour from Microsoft.
Microsoft's still has MIT license
They deleted the original copyright notice which is basically the only requirement of the MIT licence. The software is stolen.
You're right, that's gone
Lol reminds me of a movie...
-- Be Kind, Rewind (2008)