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Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After AI Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code (itsfoss.com)
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[-] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

because just as bad actors can abuse a permissive license, bad actors

You are right, but with copyleft you at least have legal mechanisms to force the company to comply with the license. With MIT or BSD there aren't any, because permissive licences don't enforce any such restrictions.

I think we 99% agree though and I love copyleft.

Yup. And I love copyleft too.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago

Those legal mechanisms do exist in theory! But, as ever, if its you vs Microsoft, you can probably get fucked :(

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