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The Chudification of Open Source (foss.life)
submitted 4 days ago by misk@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] misk@piefed.social 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I’d argue that GPL is still counterculture, it’s just that permissive licensing is more common these days and both are conflated into single umbrella of free software. Permissive licensing culture made way into traditional free software spaces like Linux and we’re seeing results of that now.