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"I just want anyone to be able to use my code." Some would argue that if you want that, then you need to license it in a way that protects anyone's freedoms an
by cess11 1y ago
"I just want anyone to be able to use my code."
Some would argue that if you want that, then you need to license it in a way that protects anyone's freedoms and disallows other ones from stepping on them.
- rerdavies 1y agoWhy would anyone serious argue that?
- D13Fd 1y agoThis is ridiculous. He said he just wants anyone to be able to use his code. Licensing it copyleft will just restrict the user base.
- cess11 1y agoNo, it won't. It restricts how you modify and distribute, which isn't a user thing to do, it's more of a developer thing. And whether it works or not is mostly untested in the legal sense but the idea with copyleft licensing is that big money shouldn't be able to ratfuck a free software embrace/extinguish-style, or some other way. I.e. it is supposed to protect the rights of the users to enjoy free software.