All other licenses are cuck licenses

Copyleft licences are the only true free software licences. All other open source licenses are just proprietariable.
- What do those words mean? What is proprietariable and copyleft? Or is that the joke?
  
  Not a joke.
  Copy left is like the Robin Hood of the copyright world. Basically, it’s a type of licensing where, sure, you can use, modify, and distribute the copyrighted work, but there’s a catch. You have to give the same rights to anyone else for any derivative works. So, if you modify the work, you can’t just slap a new copyright on it and restrict its use. It’s a way to ensure that the work stays free for everyone to use. It’s pretty popular in the open source community. It’s like copyright turned on its head, hence the name “copyleft”.
  
  proprietariable just means the code can be taken and rerelased as proprietary (no freedoms all rights reserved).
- You think that a license that imposes more restrictions on its use is more free than one that imposes fewer???
  Where my Apache-2.0 gang at?
  
  This argument reminds me of the Tolerance Paradox described by Karl Popper, who stated that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.
  In the licensing context, yes, the Apache and Expat licenses may grant your users the freedom to create proprietary software out of your works, but at the cost of sacrificing all the basic freedoms of all the users that will use the derived non-free product.
  So, like Popper said that you should prefer removing the "smaller" freedom for a society of being intolerant in order to guarantee the "greater" one of remaining tolerant in the future, since you still have to choose which freedoms you are going to negate, it's preferable to use copyleft and impede the "smaller" freedom of creating proprietary software than not using it and allowing the crushing of future users' fundamental rights.
  
  Well, it depends on your perspective. Copyleft licenses restrict downstream developers in order to protect the rights of downstream users.
  
  MITboi here.

- It’s not just free, it’s libre!

All that really does is guarantee that the professor will catch anyone cheating
- The meme is gigachad not 9000 IQ so your objection is overruled
- would be easier than to try and catch people slipping eachother code, no?
  
  It's really easy to detect duplicate programs. I've failed multiple students due to cheating on assignments. Code obfuscation is incredibly easy to detect using something like MOSS .

Of course gigachad uses a thinkpad

Code web app class homework assignment. Put a link to the AGPL on the main page. Let another student access the main page from their personal smartphone. Give them a copy of the source code. When professor accuses you of helping them cheat, you can tell the professor you legally had to.
- I know this is a joke, but assuming you're the author, then you're under no obligation to follow the license. Only people to whom you transmitted the code are bound by its terms.
- even better, use an import that has AGPL license so it's not your fault.

most new projects are in MIT?
- My grades weren't good enough so I license most of my code Community College Licence.
  
  Fucking LOL
- That's certainly possible, but it's only lukewarm open-source. People can prefer spicy licenses.
- Apache2 is preferred nowadays.

This is part of why universities generally have it in the admissions agreement that the university will hold copyright over all that you do for your classes
- Wow that's shitty

Was either required or encouraged in my programming classes.
- We were required to have our repos be private.

'Cause I'm G PL
Yes I'm the real PL
All you other letter PLs
Aren't actually PLs

Not pictured: OP and all their classmates failing the assignment and being investigated for plagiarism

I post all my homework solutions on GitHub
- I only did for my last semester mostly as a practice for using git and to have something to show recruiters/employers.

That is literally me (after the assignment period ends :") )

This guy is a joke.
- Based on commit history, you can prove that you did it originally
  Free as in freedom
  
  The commit history is trivial to rewrite.

this is the way.

what u mean bro mit license is also good
- Doesn't weaponize copyright, what's even the point

- Fixed it:
  Chad GPL license: i made my code open source, so it stays open source. proprietary users seethe harder.
  Virgin WTFPL user: yeah my code is meant to be open source, but you can do with it whatever you want!
  
  WTFPL is the femboy of copyright

GPL is too restrictive. I prefer MIT/CC0/BSD 0 clause.
- None of these licenses give patent protection to your users. If you're going "permissive", you should use Apache.
  
  I rarely run into patents but I could see that being a strong argument for Apache.
- Why is too restrictive?
  
  I don't like how it forces everything it touches to be GPL. Even if the works it touches are unrelated to the original functionality. It restricts what I can do with the code I wrote without the help of the GPL'ed code. For example, if I write an entire game: gameplay, physics, renderer, networking, etc., all myself. Then I need to include a snippet of GPL'ed code for any reason, all that work now no longer belongs to me. I, the worker, no longer have access to the fruit of my labor. Instead all of it, disproportionally, is given away to the collective world. I lose the fruits of my labor.
  With others, I do not. You can give your code to the community, you can even adopt licenses to say if you improve the code you must also open source it and give it to the community but when you then say and you also have to give away any code it touches inconsequential to it's functionality. That feels too restrictive for me. I honestly would like to see people adopt a middle ground. LGPL does this afaik and it feels like a better choice than GPL or BSD if you are trying to keep just your creation and it's derivatives open.
- I prefer the Do Whatever The Fuck You Want License.
  
  That's a good one too! I've used it a few times and it's always very satisfying. It really feels like you truly threw something into the void of the internet and let it be free.
- C U C K
  
  Get out of here with that bullshit name-calling.