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> It seems that in Europe it is far more common that many (most?) people expect you to get permission before you go off writing your random programs

No. In Europe it literally is what you pretend to be permissionless: "you don't need permission to use an existing API or data to do whatever you want as long as it isn't abusing the service or illegal."

Whereas permissionless is really just doing whatever, consequences be damned