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permissive lax licenses like MIT/X11 are free software licenses. open source folks have propaganda suggesting they are OSS but not FS, but free software people are expected to know better than falling for OSS propaganda
taking a stand against copyleft, our best if imperfect defense so far, thus our strategic preference, might be perceived as hostility, so if you were to do that, I'd recommend treading carefully
the FSF has remained loyal to the FS values and movement even when it was not under RMS's leadership, and has been under fire for that loyalty, from people and orgs that wanted to change the FS movement into something it was not meant to be, rather than advancing it along with existing leadership. one may reasonably disagree with values and goals, but decapitation and hostile take over aren't behaviors of supporters or friends, or even neutral collaborators. as for supporters of those values and goals, that loyalty is golden