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@shoq @atomicpoet @davetroy there's nothing shady about an MIT license. Mastodon has already been used in this way (Truth Social, and more). This is an issue with bad actors with bad intentions, not the MIT license.
@gr0k @atomicpoet @davetroy You can create the illusion of it being a genuine FOSS project, right up until you lock up the code and wave goodbye to the forks. You're under no obligation to publish production source.
@shoq @atomicpoet @davetroy You did specifically call it out tho. Is there a better license they might have used to lesson your suspicion? It seems to me when there's bad actors (and like you I do think BlueSky are smelly actors) they will be bad regardless of the license. The MIT is a net positive for humanity.
@gr0k @atomicpoet @davetroy I never said the MIT license was bad. But it can be abused, in precisely the way I suggest. It's happened many times.