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by steauengeglase 3586 days ago
People have built upon, but (at least in Stallman's case) also built around.

You can go back as far as the late 2000's and the GPL still had a huge following. With the mobile boom F/OSS was still embraced, but the GPL has steadily fallen to the wayside. You can only be so uncompromising when people need a means to eat.

Now we have an entire generation of CS grads who'll use MIT as their de facto license.