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Which license should we pick?

Which license should we pick?“Whatever gets the most installs this week. So, MIT.”Maya Laurent, The Visionary

💡 WHY MAYA IS RIGHT

Licensing is a growth decision before it is a legal one. Many companies ban copyleft outright, and every extra clause is one more reason a developer cannot try the tool at work today. A permissive license maximizes the number of people who can experiment with it now, which is exactly the evidence needed to know whether this deserves a business around it. Control can be added to later versions; lost first users rarely come back.

✅ RIGHT WHEN

The project is an experiment and the main risk is that nobody tries it.

🚩 TOO FAR WHEN

A competitor hosts the project, adds docs, and captures the users the license won.

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