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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Copyleft licences are the only true free software licences. All other open source licenses are just proprietariable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You think that a license that imposes more restrictions on its use is more free than one that imposes fewer???

Where my Apache-2.0 gang at?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, it depends on your perspective. Copyleft licenses restrict downstream developers in order to protect the rights of downstream users.

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