2026-11-09 20:37 UTC
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@Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2026-11-09 23:00
It doesn’t explicitly, but because all subsequent forks and software that makes use of GPL licensed code must also adhere to the GPL license, the original developer more naturally becomes the sole maintainer unless you can build a community of like-minded developers. Free and open source software doesn’t have much incentive for maintenance outside of those passionate about it. With an MIT license, attribution is sufficient and a business that finds value in that code may repackage, redistribute or sell that code without making their whole product strictly open source. In this way, you end up with larger business investment in your works because there’s an inherent value in keeping it maintained that has a direct return.