#licenses — Public Fediverse posts

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.

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@ruisan I’d call it a reciprocating license.

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

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