@scottmichaud@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #1354105
2026-03-17 04:57 UTC
@mitsuhiko A permissive license allows an entity to become defacto standard, and then rug-pull. Forks are possible from that point, but it's flimsy.
Conversely, if downstream protection doesn't apply, then GPL doesn't make as much sense.
There was one permissive library that I saw (Apache IIRC???) whose documentation was mostly examples, and the examples were GPL. 😅 What was the goal!? (Likely a goof.)
Ideally, all creations would belong to everyone in society, but we're not at a utopia yet.
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@mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io 2026-03-21 14:08
@scottmichaud The difference here really is not the license but if there are CLAs in place. I wrote about this extensively in the past. Would point you to this article that I wrote about AGPL vs FSL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/9/23/fsl-agpl-open-source-businesses/