Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”
Read OriginalThis article clarifies the distinction between permissive and copyleft software licenses, arguing that copyleft is not 'restrictive' but rather enforces a different, positive form of freedom. It explains that both license types have obligations (like attribution) but true restrictions (like field-of-endeavor limits) are absent from all proper FOSS licenses, whether permissive or copyleft.
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