If you want to see some other opinion about your exact analogy, Richard Stallman--one of the most influential thinkers of the free software world--gave an answe

If you want to see some other opinion about your exact analogy, Richard Stallman--one of the most influential thinkers of the free software world--gave an answer to the same question, at large [1]. As a summary: - Output from a proprietary program (in this case it would be food) is not unethical. - The _user_ must be free, not the developer. The users of the recipes are the cooks, not the customers. Cooks are free to change and distribute recipes. There is no recipe that a cook can't make, because in this case, the cook is the executant, not some computer. There are no compiled recipes. - If there were cooking robots that would cook compiled recipes that would not be free, he would be against it, as he is with proprietary software. [1] https://youtu.be/jUibaPTXSHk?t=914 https://youtu.be/jUibaPTXSHk?t=914