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Why should your preferred software licensing policies be legally mandated and binding on others such as myself?
by baggy_trough 3y ago
Why should your preferred software licensing policies be legally mandated and binding on others such as myself?
- josephcsible 3y agoIf you don't want others' preferred software licensing policies to be legally mandated and binding on you, are you in favor of abolishing copyright for software?
- baggy_trough 3y agoI think software authors should be able to decide their terms of use, so no.
- thanksgiving 3y agoThat is the fundamental difference between free software and open source. Free software centers around the user. Everything else is a means to that end. Open source centers around the authors. This is fundamentally misguided. I couldn’t give two [deleted] about authors and what they want.