I disagree. Some things should be given to the whole world without conditions.

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That's fine for work that doesn't have any real value.

If it becomes something lucrative, your free-to-take "without conditions" license just means that anyone with enough funding can hijack it and put their own conditions on it.

If you want the ongoing value of your contribution to the world to be available to the whole world "without conditions" then you need to protect against conditions being placed on it.

So the bech32 reference libraries are of no value to you. Got it.

I think you're more intelligent than that.

Can you recommend a good read on when an MIT licensed work has been made unavailable via corporate/state action?

No, because that isn't what I'm talking about. Here's a starting point for you: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/