• 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    Lastly, although free alternatives are often technically superior to their closed-source competitors, at the end of the day

    I am 100% in agreement with you here. While I’m not by any means a Libertarian, I prefer MIT and BSD licenses because they are truely free. The GPL is not: it removes freedoms. Now, you argue that limiting freedom can be a net good - we limit the freedom to rape and murder, and that’s good. I don’t agree that the freedoms the GPL removes are equivalent, and can indeed be harmful.

    I don’t mind others using the GPL, but I won’t.

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      9 months ago

      We can agree to disagree on the freedom point. The only “freedom” I see being taken away with the GPL is the removing of the freedom of other people.

      I don’t mind the MIT/BSD licenses, but I won’t use them. We can agree on that.