After 28 years, I'm switching my open source license to EUPL

I Changed My License

After 28 years, I'm switching my open source license to EUPL

Henri Bergius reflects on three eras of licensing his software, from LGPL to MIT to now EUPL-1.2. He argues that permissive licenses have enabled big corporations to profit without giving back, and that strong copyleft licenses like EUPL close the SaaS loophole. His recent projects, including a JavaScript implementation of Reticulum and a decentralized authorization system, are now under EUPL.

All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires.

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