[KVFinn]

>>First, 2048 should never have been MIT licensed. If Cirulli didn’t feel he had the ethical standing to make money off of it, I don’t understand why he felt he had the ethical standing to tell others they could.

>What now? If I release something under MIT (or even GPL to some extent), I'm waiving the right to tell other people how to behave with whatever I released.

Cirulli didn't feel comfortable enough selling the game itself because someone else had spent years coming up with the basic design. I couldn't clone tetris in 1989 and sell it under an MIT license without drawing potential lawsuits, even though no code was shared.