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by thrower123 1728 days ago
Everything in the npm ecosystem pretty much has to be MIT, or none of it would work.

You could poison most of the web dev ecosystem by changing the license on a handful of packages to GPL...
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d3nj4l 1728 days ago
The GPL wouldn't affect server-side JS (you'd need the AGPL for that), but client-side JS would have to be released under the GPL in un-minified form.
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YetAnotherNick 1728 days ago
Why? You could use GPL package in MIT licensed library.
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CodeWriter23 1727 days ago
Yes and then anyone using said library would have to open source their work.
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