Justifications for copyleft adoption

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Vitalik Buterin argues that the increasingly competitive and mercenary nature of the crypto space makes it unrealistic to rely on voluntary open-sourcing, reinforcing the need for copyleft licensing

Vitalik Buterin believes the mainstream adoption of open source makes it more practical to nudge enterprises toward contributing back through copyleft licensing

Vitalik Buterin believes voluntary sharing is no longer sufficient and that copyleft provides the “hard power” needed to enforce openness by requiring reciprocal sharing of code

Vitalik Buterin supports copyleft licensing in response to the growing adoption of open-source code by major companies like Google and Huawei and rising competition in crypto

Vitalik Buterin has shifted from favoring permissive licenses to supporting copyleft licenses like GPL and CC-BY-SA, which he sees as legal safeguards for openness by requiring shared source code in derivative works

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