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amin ❧ (aminb@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-2018 00:41:05 JST amin ❧

If anything, seeing this watering down of "open source" to "source available" with the likes of Commons Clause only makes me want to distance myself even further from "open source" than I already have, instead advocating even more for Free Software and bringing attention to the philosophical/societal aspects of software/user freedom and ethical concerns about proprietary software.

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- Trolli Schmittlauch ???? repeated this.
- Trolli Schmittlauch ???? (schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-2018 14:49:33 JST Trolli Schmittlauch ????
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  @deadsuperhero @aminb at least @conservancy has already written an article on why they think it's bad.
  Choose your fighters! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/22/commons-clause/
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  1. Software Freedom Ensures the True Software Commons
    
    from Software Freedom Conservancy
    
    Proprietary software has always been about a power relationship. Copyright and other legal systems give authors the power to decide what license to choose, and usually, they choose a license that favors themselves and takes rights and permissions away from others.The so-called “Commons Clause” purposely confuses and conflates many issues. The initiative is backed by FOSSA, a company that sells materiel in the proprietary compliance industrial complex. This clause recently made news again since other parties have now adopted this same license.

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