Post #839185
2026-03-29 16:16 UTC
Replies (3)
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@Eldritch@piefed.world 2026-03-29 16:32
Evil people already don’t respect licenses. Tacking on the term no evil people isn’t going to fix that. It’s already hard enough for most GPL Etc coders to enforce their licenses. Giving of their very limited resources to create the code in the first place, and receiving no resources back from the code in general. The legal process is expensive painful and time-consuming by design. All this will do is create more Hoops to jump through or ignore at best. And possibly incentivize people not to contribute or use if they feel the work could be yanked up from under them for arbitrary and capricious reasons.
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@autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2026-03-29 18:30
Awful idea, if that worked we would have done it from the start. Libre software is for taking back our computers, not controlling what others do with theirs.
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@aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-03-30 07:31
Nowadays I always try using esotheric political licenses, like the Cooperative Software License (based on the Peer Production License) or similar. I became a hater of the Free in FOSS after learning how the FSF and OSI define it.