> LLM

> GPL

> BSD/MIT

Aha, your shift key does work! Now that you've found it we can work on using it when sentences start.

I find your anarchy analogy unconvincing. It seems like you're conflating the existence of permissive licences, with a lack of a legal obligation to use the GPL. If anarchy exists rather than user protection, it's in the ability to choose a non-GPL license altogether.

i just had the all lowercase discussion (i wasn't even the reason it started) so i am just going to refer you to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889553 (that link is a top level comment responding to the article)

you're conflating the existence of permissive licenses, with a lack of a legal obligation to use the GPL

well, the interpretation of 9dev creates a legal preference for public domain software. so there is that. but that aside, i don't get your reading, how am i conflating anything. i am making an analogy. permissive licenses enable a state or behavior that is comparable to anarchy, in that there is no protection for anyone, whereas the GPL has a strong focus on user protection. if we want to stretch the analogy even further, the GPL could be compared to socialism. oh, and binary only distribution is capitalism. (ok. i'll stop now ;-)

what you are describing is something different entirely. the original developer of course has the freedom to set the rules for his software. what i am talking about in my analogy, is how that choice affects the environment in which their software gets used and distributed, which is either like anarchy or like socialism (or anything in between).