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1. lain (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Dec-2021 00:09:31 JST lain
   Guys puts his software under agpl until someone pays for it, then it'll be MIT.> https://lwn.net/Articles/878759/One comment:> That's capitalism. If we all lived in a magical communist utopia, then these licenses would not need to exist in the first place. I don't think it's that obvious that licensing is because of 'capitalism'. The concept of intellectual property is very strange and many hardcore free market people would reject it. At least as it exists now, copyright (and patents for that matter) are a government enforced monopoly. "Artificial scarcity" enforced with guns.