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		FartyMcFarter on May 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red... What is impressive about it? The MIT license is more permissive, so using that would accomplish everything GPL does and more, no? I'm not a lawyer.

bloodorange on May 20, 2020 | [–]

Well, the MIT license fails to make people release their changes if they release some work based on it.

young_unixer on May 20, 2020 | [–]

Technically yes, but it's understandabe that they don't want someone else to take the code, add functionality and make it closed source.

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