✨ Nora Tindall  🪐

When someone uses my code in another software project that they then distribute, the code for that project is also available. MIT does not require this, so I don't usually use it.

The problem of GPL is that it also requires derivative work to be under GPL as far as I know, that's why I don't use it and use MIT instead, because GPL basically makes commercial usage impossible.

That's not at all true. It just means the resulting product has to be open source. You use the commons, you contribute back to the commons.

"Unless you are talking about chocolate cake, most cake is vanilla." I think that a company that uses my work should contribute their changes back. If they don't want to, they can go chew rocks.

What a fallacious comparison. Most commercial code is closed source and that's it. It is the reason why companies like Apple, Microsoft or Google actively avoid using GPL and have removed a lot of GPL dependencies. When it comes to code, you could even say that GPL harms OSSW.

Yes. Correct. I do not want Apple, or Microsoft, or Google to use my code. That is why it is licensed GPL.

OK, this is the reality of OSSW unfortunately. People coding OSSW that doesn't want people to use it. OK.