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That's exactly the kind of limited perspective I'm questioning. FSF bases their copyleft concept on ethical beliefs. But what are the ethics of publishing your
by tannhaeuser 8y ago
That's exactly the kind of limited perspective I'm questioning. FSF bases their copyleft concept on ethical beliefs. But what are the ethics of publishing your project on github such that your user's clicks are tracked, and you can't even scrape github for building up a search index unless you're GoogleBot or Bing? What are the ethics of giving your labor to cloud providers working hard to lock users in to their ecosystem? What is ethical about OSI's no-purpose-limitation criterion such that your software can be easily weaponized in one form or another? What is ethical about promoting the idea that software developers need to give all their work away such that only very few cloud providers can benefit, to the detriment of financing further development and maintenance?
- saagarjha 8y agoI still don't understand your point. The GPL provides none of the protections you are asking for, since I am free to post my code wherever I see fit. Are you asking for protections as to where I am legally allowed to host my code?