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So do you see MIT as a potential backdoor for embrace extend extinguish? And a general erosion of the philosophy of open source? I tend to like GPL and MIT both. I lean more towards copyleft myself but I have come to appreciate a more permissive license. even leaving out smaller developers, if a big company decides they're intent on making money using open source tools, I don't think they're gonna change their whole gameplan because something in the toolchain is GPL licenses.
If there’s enough community outrage, they might just get the attention of one of the several open source foundations