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F3nd0 wrote (edited )

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.

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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.

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