F3nd0 wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by surreal in What software are you excited about right now? by BabyCroc
Thank you. It seems to me they don't care much whether the users end up free or not. Ticki implies they would also appreciate people building non-libre software on top of Redox. That's a terrible approach to have in a project like Redox. It is a responsibility of every software developer to care about the users' freedom.
They have raised some valid practical issues. I believe those may be resolved by weak copyleft, which has already been proposed in the thread. Unless they correct this error, I feel I can't wish them success, because too much would be at stake.
surreal wrote
It's sad that we even need licenses to make something FOSS. Big companies don't give a shit about licenses anyway, they have been abusing the GPL for decades because the foundations (if any) behind any FOSS project cannot bear the costs of a court battle. FOSS exists because free and open knowledge is the only way forward in any science and not because it has licenses.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments