one of the frequent justifications for GPL-style licenses over MIT-style ones is that they prevent some type of, as far as I can tell, "enclosure"
GPL proponents describe a scenario in which a non-GPL-licensed project can be "taken" by a commercial organisation and made proprietary
I do not understand how this can happen, or how the GPL prevents it
copyleft Afficher plus
@Angle I guess I don't think the GPL has much of an effect on that - particularly with server software, the fact that every web service is built on a huge stack of processes with varying licenses means GPL or AGPL don't present any practical barrier to any bad actor using free software for nefarious purposes
whereas those licenses do prevent individual software producers/small ISVs (like gamedevs) from reusing certain software in their own products