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		ronsor on Sept 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Docs in a clean-room browser I feel like a lot of people choose permissive licenses due to inertia while not really understanding them.

jamesfinlayson on Sept 21, 2021 [–]

Agreed - I feel like 15 or 20 years ago, GPL was a well-known license so that's just what people went with, without understanding all of the implications.

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