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lmmlast Tuesday at 2:22 AM1 replyview on HN

> There isn't a similar degree of legal risk with MPL 2.0, nor with non-copyleft licenses (which is the subject of this subthread, not proprietary licenses)

There is a similar degree of legal risk with the overwhelming majority of licenses in use. Yes, using exclusively permissively-licensed software would let you avoid this particular risk - but given that essentially no-one (BSD advocates are, if anything, less scrupulous about avoiding proprietary software than GPL advocates - you rarely hear of BSD-land pushing firmware into a separate nonfree repository or the like) does that, it's clearly not a risk many people care much about.


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sunshowerslast Tuesday at 7:05 PM

Is your position that the FSF is wrong? If so, why trust the licenses that the same FSF wrote?

In general, businesses acquire commercial licenses for proprietary software, which is a kind of derisking.

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