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  1. Licenses like GPL are reciprocative licenses. If you take, you must also give back.

    Licenses like MIT are parasitic licenses. You can take without giving back.

    #software #freedom #licenses #reciprocative #parasitic

  2. @ruisan I’d call it a reciprocating license.

    And I’d call licenses where you can take without giving back parasitic licenses.

    #licenses #reciprocating #parasitic