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  • Unfortunately you fail to understand the history. Stall man FSF etc is a relatively new organisation started in the 80s.

    Open source was a term long before that. And it was created by early Unix commercial dostros in the 60s. There were magazines etc dedicated to it as a mess with to allow commercial software to spread to multiple platforms. Long before stallmans free as in beer attitude.

    So no the other licences have a place in history and are open source even if you and I may not support their ideals.

    This is why words like libre and free software were formed to include our expanded ideals.








  • I think you underestimate the hate.

    For the organisations that want to deny the ideals suggested. Using software under such a licence would lose them support. So when developers select such a licence. The software itself gets recognised as such. Meaning any shitty organisation using it gets labeled unacceptable to their very user base.

    So requiring the acceptance of these facts would have the same effect as anything else.


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    I think such a licence would need very careful wording. Wording that concentrates on the entity or organisation using rather then jurisdiction.

    GPL claims free as in speech not beer. Whereas this would be removing that very concept. By suggesting use for some ideas is not allowed.

    I can def see the advantage. Especially for people developing social software. But trying to form a licence like that. While not running fowl of existing GPL restrictions. Would take some seriose legal understanding. As making gpled current libraries incompatible. Could totally remove existing work to expand upon. Removing most developers desire to place the effort needed for the new software.

    Would be interesting to watch the project form though. Unfortunately it would be very much like watching a dangerous stunt. Facinating as much for the risk of failure as that of hoping for success.