Re: The sad decline of copyleft software licenses? :(

[Marinus Savoritias]

A permissive license absolutely hurts the user. Any company or bad actor 
can just take the project, re license it and close source it.

That takes away user freedom. If anybody and any company can just close 
source the work that is not freedom.

If it is the same freedom let's delete GPL go to MIT and call it a day.

Marinus Savoritias

On 9/22/20 11:28 PM, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org> [2020-09-22 22:26]:
> > I 100% completely agree with that.
> > And personally the question I get is that:
> > Why is FSF promotes and/or approves of non-copyleft if all it does is harm
> > the user?
>
> Please see here the stance of GNU:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
>
> If it is free software it is good. If it is copyleft, is better. That
> is simple to understand.
>
> I do not see how free software licenses harm the user. If you use
> exclusively free software, a permissive free software license will not
> harm an user.
>
> Jean