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Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by rpdillon on Sunday November 13, 2022 @02:15PM (#33586346)
It's designed to maximize freedom overall, not freedom for one individual. There's some tension between those two goals.

I think it's basically the software equivalent of the Paradox of Tolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Re:Mold may switch to non-commercial-only license by josephcsible on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:06PM (#33673454)
The AGPL maximizes both freedom overall and freedom for one individual, so there is no actual tension or equivalence with the paradox of tolerance. The key misunderstanding here is the belief that being able to keep other people from doing things is freedom. That's actually power, and that's all that copyleft licenses take away. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html for more details.