Re:Astral to Join OpenAI
by colesantiago on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:21AM
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https://choosealicense.com/
https://choosealicense.com/about/
> "GitHub wants to help developers choose an open source license for their source code."
This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.
>This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.
So long ago, in fact, that it was five years before their acquisition by Microsoft.
I don't see anything on there saying that non-copyleft licenses are better, unless you are in an ecosystem that prefers a different license.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI
by Master_Odin on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:35PM
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The site puts the MIT and GPLv3 front and center with a nice quick informative blurb on them. How are they pushing MIT over GPL?
I think this was more about "please choose _any_ license" because of the problem outlined here:
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1150/is-my-co...
Does the CEO of github count? https://youtu.be/-bAAlPXB2-c?t=180
Feel free to prove me wrong by pointing out this massive amount of advocacy from "mega-clouds" that changed people's minds.
The ads, the mailing list posts, social media comments. Anything at all you can trace to "mega-clouds" execs.