The joke is that permissive licenses allow you to make less permissive forks, whether that&#x27;s proprietary or copyleft or anything else. So it&#x27;s hard to see what the problem is. Anytime someone complains about the license for this or that project being too permissive, it&#x27;s ironic because:<p>(a) it&#x27;s someone trying to force their values on someone else in the name of &quot;freedom&quot; (in scare quotes because it&#x27;s a very specific definition of the term that requires political buy-in to even see it as a form of freedom)<p>and<p>(b) as stated, the people complaining are free (no scare quotes) to take the permissively licensed code and incorporate it into their &quot;free&quot; code to their heart&#x27;s content. The ability to do this is one of the reasons people choose permissive licenses in the first place.<p>I don&#x27;t care if people choose freedom or &quot;freedom&quot; or anything in between- that&#x27;s their right as authors, and no one license is appropriate for all communities or goals or projects. I only object to anyone who claims that there is a One True Path that everyone should follow and that anyone who doesn&#x27;t follow that path is somehow morally inferior, which is usually the template that these discussions follow.