"Copyleft is less free than permissive licenses because permissive licenses allow you to make proprietary forks of free software" is a worldview that just straight-up makes no sense at all

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The classic users freedom vs developers freedom.

Got into yet another discussion about it, and the usual answer is "yes, but if project x goes proprietary, a fork can happen."

Indeed, **if** it happens.

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> "if project goes proprietary, a fork can happen"
But past community contributions remain with the project (including non-artifacts like QA by production use).
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