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points by Vaushite 3 days ago | 0 comments

Licensing is downstream of software existing. The person who actually writes software gets to make the license. If you want a GPL one you have to make that.

[–] bikvfeee 2 days ago

It already exists.

[–] warkdarrior 1 day ago

The default sudo (written in C) has an MIT license: https://www.sudo.ws/about/license/

Where is this GPL-licensed sudo that already exists?

[–] Vaushite 2 days ago

Is it better?

[–] cpach 1 day ago

Where…?

[–] Shish2k 1 day ago

This conversation is very reminiscent of

"if you want people to use open chat protocols, you need to make user-friendly clients"

"we already have irssi"

the vast majority of people abandon IRC for discord

shocked Pikachu face from the free software community

[–] nsoam 1 day ago

It’s much worse: they created Matrix.