i think that FOSS should focus on freedom, infectious (copyleft) licenses force developers to change the licensing on their own code, thus acting against freedom
same thing with the forced attribution found in many licenses (even "permissive" ones)
FOSS in my opinion should be about releasing code to the public without expecting a return (modified code/attribution) or imposing rules (forced license change)
that's why my favourite license is the 0BSD (also submitting the code into the public domain, in applicable regions)
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Thanks for your response. I see copyleft as a good tool, in order to free the code. Since my goal is to have the freedom to see the code.
For me it has no value, when someone uses the code in propriatary software. Since then it is unethical, due to the fact that the user can not know what the code does.
For me creating propriatary software is no freedom I want to defend in any way. I actually think it is unethical in every application.