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The developer of "Copyparty", a genuinely nice piece of software, considers the GPL and AGPL "problematic". (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago by Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net
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The dominance of libertarianism, and pro corporate licensing within the FOSS world is disgusting and annoying me. I don't have any articles or anything that is hard proof. But I do have this github post and graph I guess

And the other thing I have? A hunch no-i-in-pezza

I'm glad the software is free, but come the fuck on. "Problematic" for fucking who?? Google? It better be!

Thank you dessalines for having a spine, and choosing a proper license.

And the site that they link? It's not only highly pro corporate but also fucking lying!!!

It doesn't prevent you from selling shit!!! Shut the fuck up!!! I'm not making my work a way for you to easily profit, give shit back or fuck off maddened

They can keep making the shit that they do, but I ain't committing a single line of code to that fucker.

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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Copy left turns copyright into a tool of collective ownership among the working class, tech oligarchs hate this, so they invented permissive licenses that essentially force workers into giving free labor to companies with no mechanism for giving back.

GitHub, owned by MS, offers the permissive MIT/Expat license as the default, so users are pushed into not fighting for their rights or having a class consciousness in the first place.

It's not really drama more than its techbros bootlicking capitalists and giving their labor away rather than ensuring it remains collectively owned and operated.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just did a little research on it. You have saved me. I think I'm going to want an AGPL license

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Oh and another thing, the gnu project maintains a HUUUUGE list of licenses: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can't believe me making a post about this nonsense, in an indirect way, actually helped you. That's awesome deng-smile

[–] The_Grinch@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

STEMlords are already primed to reject anything that sounds "philosophical", such as differences between license types.

You're being ideological! You will never make anything with that attitude!

As if what you're making and who it's for are somehow secondary, trifling matters. Yeah I've been down this dialog tree a few times how could you tell?