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0 pointscardanome4mo ago0 comments

So a change to the worse.

The GPL protects the freedom of the users while MIT-licensed software can be easily rug-pulled or be co-opted by the big tech monopolists.

Using GitHub is unacceptable as it is banning many countries from using it. You are excluding devs around the world from contributing. Plus it is owned by Microsoft.

So we replaced a strong copyleft license and a solid decentralized workflow with a centralized repo that depends on the whims of Microsoft and the US government and that is somehow a good thing?

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bigstrat20034mo ago

> The GPL protects the freedom of the users while MIT-licensed software can be easily rug-pulled or be co-opted by the big tech monopolists.

That is not at all true. If someone were to change the license of a project from MIT to something proprietary, the original will still exist and be just as available to users. No freedom is lost.

blub4mo ago

With GPL I can compile my own copy and use it with their software. They have to allow that. They also have to give me their sources, changes included.

MIT is a big joke at the expense of the open-source community.

dvtkrlbs4mo ago

I mean sadly even though I hate the bans the exclusion is really insignificant in the grand scheme of things and the benefits Github brings most of the considered acceptable for the tradeoff. I am sadly one of those people I am fairly young (25) and my introduction to git happened with Github so I am really used to it. Though I am also developing a codeforge as an hobby project and maybe something serious in the long term.

There is also another crowd that completely aligns with the US foreign policy and also has the same animosity towards those countrie's citizens (I 've seen considerable amount of examples of these).

For the license part I really don't get the argument how can a coreutils rewrite can get rugpulled this is not a hosted service where minio [1] [2] like situation can happen and there is always the original utils if something like that were to happen.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136108

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