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What usage restrictions can we place in a free software license?

• JNRowe 7y ago
  I keep reading these types of discussions in part because I'm hoping $smart_people are going to solve this for me. There are restrictions I'd probably like to see, but I just can't see how they could work. All I want is the magic unicorn solution, preferably built in a manner I can put in front of my employer's lawyers ;)
• jrepinc 7y ago
  For me the only acceptable (and even desirable) restriction is to protect against privatisation/closing up free software. So basically what GPL already does or any strong copyleft license. This way free software is even more strongly free as in freedom, other wise with other restrictions it actually weakens the freedom part.
  • xaedes 7y ago
    How does making private closed-source derivatives of software close up the original software?