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That is the problem. MIT isn't GPL. In our new AI powered future, we want the source so we can fix it ourselves.

MIT is a source code license. If you have MIT licensed source code then you already have the source code and can fix it yourself. No different than GPL.

It is materially different to the GPL and inferior in all such ways.

I think it's time to recognize that copyleft as an idea is not great and LGPL makes the license even worse. I want licenses that don't have a core philosophy that attempts to overturn existing copyright.

Copyleft rocks. I want copyright overturned too.

I disagree on both points. The only difference is the lack of a requirement to share your changes under MIT. That makes it only inferior depending on your perspective. You are entirely allowed to feel it's inferior, but it's not FACTUALLY inferior, just different.

Thank you for explaining the difference between opinion and fact for me. Before you said anything I spent my whole life wandering adrift. Do you have any pointers on basic shapes while we’re at it?

Yes, my opinion is that a useless license is inferior to one that is useful. MIT permits taking without giving more so than the gpl. The point of my comment, you see, was to convey my strong opinion.

Many people do this, by the way: they just state something they believe without a disclaimer or preamble because in context, usually everyone in a conversation has a theory of mind sophisticated enough to discern opinion from fact, especially when someone is sharing their own private thoughts. Does this help? Good God the internet can be tedious.

Sudo is already MIT. What are you concerned about here? Why hasn't it already happened?

Well, in the AI-powered future, you can reverse engineer and patch about anything without the source, too. That's not an argument against the GPL, but everything you can download is now effectively source-available for a modest fee to an inference provider.

> That is the problem. MIT isn't GPL. In our new AI powered future, we want the source so we can fix it ourselves.

GPL would be ideal, MIT is okay, but in our new AI-powered future, we may not even need the source code:

https://bramble-apps.github.io/

Maybe all software will become open source or free software?

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