opensource

On permissive vs copyleft open source licenses: https://shazow.net/posts/permissive-vs-copyleft/

I break down all the ways copyleft licenses fail to achieve their state goals, and explain why permissive licenses succeed where copyleft fails.

It's a beast of an article, but I wanted to be comprehensive.

If you author, contribute, or use open source then you should read this post about permissive vs copyleft licenses.

There's a lot of unintuitive outcomes of choosing one or the other.

I've been wanting to write this post for a decade+, after talking about these things with hundreds of people.