@thor the funny thing is that one can view the GPL as totally capitalistic. it's just a contract in the end. free to sign it or not.

you are free to do anything you want, except to not grant others the same freedom.

i'd argue we'd have less problems with google, apple, etc. if all open source licenses were like this. after all, they all just took open source stuff put their own stuff in it and there we are. imagine if everything was AGPL. google sync probably would have to be open source. BSD and other weak copyleft licenses open the doors to embrace, extend, extinguish.

it's about short term freedom vs. ensuring long term freedom.

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