Ask HN: Ever regreted to publish something under MIT license?

11 points by maxwellito ↗ HN
The license is pretty permissive, letting anyone able to build a business off it. I guess it can lead to bad surprises.

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> I guess it can lead to bad surprises.

Surprises? If you build something and explicitly let anyone use it, you shouldn't be surprised when someone does in fact use it.

If I post something on GitHub publicly I would love for someone to use it. That's kind of the whole point. Ego bump!

Only thing I could think of being salty about is if they re-package and sell it as their own and make a lot of money without attribution. Then again it's not like I was going to sell it anyways, so all the power to them I guess?