Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement

Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement by specialist on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:39AM (#31070378)

First off, I love these kinds of discussions, debates. Thank you.

IIRC, RMS rejected forfeiting rights, eg public domain, to better protect users of software. Maybe the thinking was that the absence of copyright would lead to seizure (capture) and exploitation of the works.

I'd love to know how that's actually worked out, empirically. Like comparing outcomes of similar projects which used different licenses.

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Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement by stjohnswarts on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:25PM (#31074535)

Yeah RMS definitely is adding a moderating factor with the license to ensure that the software stays open unlike MIT/BSD where you just have to note that you're using it to those you are distributing it to and include any copyright notices of the authors (and the license notice of course)

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