[kwlug-disc] Permissive vs copyleft licenses

[Doug Moen]

I agree that permissive licences are the standard now. I use Apache 2.0 for my project, and it's my favourite licence. 

As for other projects, I'm not picky, I'll use any free or open source software, and the specific licence doesn't matter to me, as long as it is certified free or open. I hate all the licence wars on the internet. A lot of specious arguments about how some specific licence is insufficiently free, or incompatible with some other licence. The 3 most popular licences, MIT, Apache 2 and the GPLs, are all considered unacceptable to various large and well known projects, and I don't care any more.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, at 9:54 PM, Jason Eckert wrote:
> It definitely looks like permissive licenses have really become the standard for most projects over this past decade - here's one more project that decided to switch from GPL to the Apache license as a result (citing their rationale): https://terminusdb.com/blog/2020/12/08/we-love-gplv3-but-are-switching-license-to-apache-2-0-terminusdb/
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