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by FartyMcFarter 2223 days ago
What is impressive about it? The MIT license is more permissive, so using that would accomplish everything GPL does and more, no?

I'm not a lawyer.
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bloodorange 2223 days ago
Well, the MIT license fails to make people release their changes if they release some work based on it.
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sandov 2223 days ago
Technically yes, but it's understandabe that they don't want someone else to take the code, add functionality and make it closed source.
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