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c7b • yesterday at 7:14 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Sorry to hear. Just asking, why did you choose MIT license over something like GPL? It's not that they couldn't have copied you, but you would be in a different position vis-à-vis them now.


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neuwirth • yesterday at 7:25 PM

I would've chosen GPL personally, but a prototype repository already existed under MIT by the time I joined as a contributor through the fellowship. Alas.

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keeda • yesterday at 7:27 PM

No, unfortunately. In this era of AI rewriting entire projects from scratch, copyright protection for software is effectively dead.

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