@masterofthetiger@theres.life
It doesnt "have" to do anything. You can do whatever you want when you publish code.

But it is generally accepted that "Free software" means "Free as in freedom, not money". Since the GPL is restrictive and viral it takes away a coders freedom (they wind up in license hell highly restricted in what code they can pull in). Permissive licenses however are the opposite, their all about freedom.

So for me its a central and defining quality of free software is freedom. A restrictive license is contrary to that.

@Algot