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by kjksf 90 days ago

I don't remember GitHub or Amazon advocating MIT over GPL.

Feel free to prove me wrong by pointing out this massive amount of advocacy from "mega-clouds" that changed people's minds.

The ads, the mailing list posts, social media comments. Anything at all you can trace to "mega-clouds" execs.

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> "GitHub wants to help developers choose an open source license for their source code."

This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.

The site puts the MIT and GPLv3 front and center with a nice quick informative blurb on them. How are they pushing MIT over GPL?

I think this was more about "please choose _any_ license" because of the problem outlined here:

>This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.

So long ago, in fact, that it was five years before their acquisition by Microsoft.

I don't see anything on there saying that non-copyleft licenses are better, unless you are in an ecosystem that prefers a different license.