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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by colesantiago on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:21AM (#47441017)
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.

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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by supern0va on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:43AM (#47441365)
>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.

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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by thayne on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:41PM (#47442207)
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.
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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by Master_Odin on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:35PM (#47443839)
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?
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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by kpcyrd on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:09PM (#47448988)
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...

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