Title should have [2025], since this blog is from 2025.
On subject: In 2026 I hope the wars FOSS vs OSS and copyleft vs permissive are over.
This article has a lot of nonsense. In practice you should choice a license that meets your goal. So do not choice a license from an ideology , a license has a purpose and every project has a different goal.
"This means as an author of some copyleft code, I have special rights that my users don’t have: I am allowed to use my code for proprietary purposes" -> Nonsense: Everyone has the same rights! You can not revoke a license, and re-licensing your own GPL code has more nuances than stated in this article.
For every OSI approved license is a place in 2026 and a good use case thinkable. So some more nuance in 2026 and more references to scientific studies over this subject of more than 30 years history would improve this old article.
Title should have [2025], since this blog is from 2025.
On subject: In 2026 I hope the wars FOSS vs OSS and copyleft vs permissive are over.
This article has a lot of nonsense. In practice you should choice a license that meets your goal. So do not choice a license from an ideology , a license has a purpose and every project has a different goal.
"This means as an author of some copyleft code, I have special rights that my users don’t have: I am allowed to use my code for proprietary purposes" -> Nonsense: Everyone has the same rights! You can not revoke a license, and re-licensing your own GPL code has more nuances than stated in this article.
For every OSI approved license is a place in 2026 and a good use case thinkable. So some more nuance in 2026 and more references to scientific studies over this subject of more than 30 years history would improve this old article.