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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by japhyr on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:57PM (#9711895)
When I choose MIT over GPL I'm usually trying to make my work as easy for others to adopt as possible. I want some of the software I wrote to become a commodity. The MIT seems a clearer path to commoditized software than the GPL.

Is that a reasonable line of thinking?

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by icebraining on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:59PM (#9711901)
Yes, and in fact rms himself has made that decision in the past.
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by japhyr on Saturday June 13, 2015 @02:02PM (#9711913)
That's the LGPL, right?
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by icebraining on Saturday June 13, 2015 @02:08PM (#9711928)
No, rms actually support moving from the LGPL to BSD, to achieve the maximum possible reach of the software: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/2001-February/00...
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by mikegioia on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:03PM (#9712425)
I think this is for one hyper-specific case that he in fact "okayed" the switch to BSD.

    In response to the change of license, Richard Stallman of the Free
    Software Foundation says, "I agree.  It is wise to make some of the
    Ogg Vorbis code available for use in proprietary software, so that
    commercial companies doing proprietary software will use it, and help
    Vorbis succeed in competition with other formats that would be
    restricted against our use.
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