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The very name "permissive" licenses is problematic, because it steers the discussion towards the point of view of software middlemen, not of users.

From the point of view of a user, a copylefted software allows the user to do more things: the license grants them permission to see and change the source code of the software, no matter how they got it. With so-called permissive software, the user may be stripped of this permission by third parties.



Another name for "permissive license" is "cuck license". Hopefully I don't have to explain the analogy.




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