Re:Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (2015)
by Shoue on Saturday February 19, 2022 @09:48PM
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The term for this "communal freedom" rather than "pure individualist freedom" is Negative Liberty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty
It's one of the core tenets of modern freedom, for example: you're free to say what you want (Positive Liberty) as long as it's not a threat of violence that would silence someone else, so that other person is free from your threat of violence (Negative Liberty).
Being allowed to choose a license that denies freedom to others isn't freedom, just like being allowed to own slaves wasn't freedom.