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by anewguy9000 1321 days ago
but this doesnt really explain what makes gpl superior to mit. in my experience, gpl is expensive, and i have seen plenty of fair contribution, ownership, and community making things better with mit. what i was trying to say was that code published in the open will inevitably be abused by humans and machines alike. the difference between gpl and mit, in my view, is that more permissive licenses are less at odds with this reality. with copyleft there will always be lawsuits
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Those lawsuits are necessary in order to protect free software.

They have also brought us much good, as without the GPL you wouldn't have OpenWRT or LineageOS, projects which typically depend on vendor-provided kernels or drivers in order to function.