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• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone acting like they’ve never heard of “Free as in Freedom not as in Free Beer”

  They give you the source. They let you modify it and use it, just don’t make billions off someone else’s freely available work.

  How that translates to “most of their stuff is proprietary” and the one smartass that thinks it’s a good argument to say “ffmpeg doesn’t mind their code being used in YouTube, why should you?”

  Until we collapse capitalism the billionaires will take our hard work and make billions off of it until they force kill our projects and replace them with proprietary closed source shit. A license that prohibits corporations from making profit off our work is A-OK.

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  • DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You say the open source line, and then apply it to a project that doesn’t value those values.

    Free as in freedom comes without restrictions like commercial use.

    If that low bar of source avaialble (last I checked you have to request the source). That’s fine.

    But for a lot of FOSS people its not because it means you can never learn from the code, and apply it in your paying job. Or in your own project that suddenly gets big. Then suddenly someone is knocking demanding money.

    Its about the community as much about the code.

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    • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      last I checked you have to request the source)

      So you haven’t checked… Good to know you don’t know what you’re making a strong statement about.

      Then suddenly someone is knocking demanding money.

      No, they don’t come knocking, because you wouldn’t be using the code in your commercial product in the first place, regardless of how small it is.

      Donations are not the same thing as paid licenses, and FUTO’s license is bad because it prevents you from funding your fork. But funding doesn’t mean exploitation for profit, which is what corporations like Google do with copyleft code.

      Its about the community as much about the code.

      Right, community != business.

      I want my code to be freely used by all in the community, and I explicitly do not want a corporation to exploit my work for their profit. That’s antithetical to the concept of community.

      I’m a fan of the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. In an ideal world, the GPL would be sufficient, but we don’t live in an ideal world, we live in an exploitative capitalist run world and they will do everything they can to profit off the labor of and destroy the community that develops open source software.

      Fund the development of the code you spin with donations and foundations and whatever you want, but don’t charge for and make profit off others’ labor.

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