I'm not particularly fond of cuck licenses.
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What's wrong with BSD?
A concise summary: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Cuck_license
The trope namer: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuck-licenses/
That actually does describe the class of licences fairly accurately. Companies specifically love cuck licenses because of their unfree propagation properties.
what's with this language?
Do you have a better description? I think "Cuck license" actually covers it very well: You build your bestest robotic waifu, when Intel-sama kicks in the door, and fucks her right in front of you, impregnating her, and then leaving and never coming back, leaving everyone a victim.
Because that's effectively what happened to Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix kernel (which was used by intel to enable the Intel Management chip, which has even more control over your machine than your own CPU). Had Tanenbaum used GPL, intel would've been legally forced to open source the code, enabling us users to see what's actually running inside.
what the fuck is wrong with you?