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Terrible article. The whole style is annoying but let me just quote two things.

> The funniest thing is when Cuck Licensers complain that people are abiding by their licenses. They will complain that people took their code and made money off of it. They will complain when they don't get some social credit they feel like they deserve when their code is used in a project. They will complain if people fork their project and it becomes more popular than the original. They will complain when some tech giant takes their code and makes spyware out of it.

None of these things are prevented by making your code GPL. GPL only means that if they distribute the software, they also have to distribute the source. There is no requirement to provide “social capital”, to not make money or to not put spyware in it.

> With Cuck Licenses, you get the worst of two worlds: You get no credit for your work, […]

BSD-style licenses require attribution when distributing the software. So if Intel distributed MINIX, they had to put the license and Andrew Tanenbaum’s copyright notice somewhere in their documentation. That’s why we get all those screenshots of curl being in things.




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