permissive licenses are kinda harmful to foss

it shouldn’t be possible to fork an open-source project and then keep said fork closed-source or relicense it to a source-available license

stuff like that just feels like saying “hey i took your thing and made it better, but you’re never going to be able to see how i made it better, and you’ll never be able to make your thing better”

@kemona_halftau I agree. The exception is that permissive licenses are good for when it is beneficial for interoperability for even proprietary software to use your code, such as implementations of free protocols/formats/codecs (because otherwise proprietary software would likely just support only proprietary and potentially patent-encumbered equivalents, which would be worse). Preferably proprietary software would not exist and all software would be free, but libopus (for example) being permissively licensed is better than everyone using AAC because libopus is copyleft and proprietary software developers refuse to use it.