Re:You use more open source software than you think
by throw0101a on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:38AM
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Being forced to release source code is a restriction. Some people are okay with that, and others want totally unrestricted code available.
Re:You use more open source software than you think
by morelisp on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:16AM
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> others want totally unrestricted code available.
It's easy to give the lie to this, because the restriction they are unhappy with is the restriction against restricting others. Anyone complaining about that is just masking a demand of "free for me, but not for thee" - definitely _not_ "totally unrestricted."
> My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better. [1]
Free as in freedom for the users of the software to control, audit, and modify what runs on their hardware.
The stipulations are there to prevent people who aren't aligned with those goals from benefiting from (and working against) the work done by the community that believes in those goals.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html