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Re:The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atroci... by Seirdy on Friday March 04, 2022 @09:58PM (#30563730)
The only thing that the GPL family prevents is coercion, effectively reaching a local minima of coercion-by-others as a function of coercion-by-vendor.

Granting the freedom to coerce doesn't reduce coercion.

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Re:The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atroci... by 683686285 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:52AM (#30566686)
Not distributing source code is not coercion. GPL forces people to do work in exchange for a promise that they will not be subject to volience, that's coercion.
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