Vitalik Buterin historically favors permissive licenses like MIT and CC0 due to their minimal restrictions, which he believed encouraged broader use and adoption of open-source code

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In a blog post published on July 7, Buterin explained that permissive licenses such as MIT or CC0 have historically been his choice because they allow anyone to use, modify, and redistribute code with minimal restrictions, facilitating wider adoption.

If content is published with a permissive license (eg. CC0, MIT), anyone can take it and use it and redistribute it for any purpose with no restrictions, perhaps with minimal rules requiring attribution.