alt Hacker NewsThe more permissive MIT is often an advantage if you want to build it into something bigger, which is reasonable for diff tool.
Discrete users would arguably win more with integrity of AGPL, but developers have reasons to prefer MIT.
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lejalv • today at 7:47 AM
Servitude to their masters
> but developers have reasons to prefer MIT
Hi! as a developer, I personally prefer it when the libraries/tools used in my projects are GPL or another Copyleft license. The drove of MIT projects from the past decade has been depressing.