MIT, ISC and other permissive licenses exist for the sole purpose to be simple and understandable. They permit pretty much everything - including creating a proprietary fork of your software.
And that proprietary fork can get much more powerful development and marketing, essentially killing off its predecessor - its no secret that proprietary software has much better funding than open source
So please, for the sake of FOSS, use GPL and other copyleft licenses that are made by design to prevent this kind of thing from happening. It will have little to no effect on the workflow or distribution, but it will protect the future of open source
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