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Permissive licenses (commonly referred to as "cuck licenses") like the MIT license allow others to modify your software and release it under an unfree license. Copyleft licenses (like the Gnu General Public License) mandate that all derivative works remain free.

Andrew Tanenbaum developed MINIX, a modular operating system kernel. Intel went ahead and used it to build Management Engine, arguably one of the most widespread and invasive pieces of malware in the world, without even as much as telling him. There's nothing Tanenbaum could do, since the MIT license allows this.

Erik Andersen is one of the developers of Busybox, a minimal implementation of that's suited for embedded systems. Many companies tried to steal his code and distribute it with their unfree products, but since it's protected under the GPL, Busybox developers were able to sue them and gain some money in the process.

Interestingly enough, Tanenbaum doesn't seem to mind what intel did. But there are some examples out there of people regretting releasing their work under a permissive license.

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[-] db2@lemmy.world 145 points 4 weeks ago

Permissive licenses (commonly referred to as "cuck licenses")

That's where I stopped reading. 👎

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 71 points 4 weeks ago

I mean, it’s funny for a couple of reasons

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 29 points 4 weeks ago

I guess they take things seriously even in a linuxmemes community

[-] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

The joke in the OP stops at the beginning of the joke explanation. If you just share your honest opinion like that in a shitposting community, you can't expect everyone to "play along" with your "joke".

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I don't think I've ever heard that term before in my life and I've been doing this for a while.

And I don't think I ever wanna hear it again.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

It's a term Trump cultists use.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Memes are srs bidness.

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