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The idea that the invention of non-Free "fauxpen" licenses for the purposes of protecting for-profit commercial interests might somehow the fault of GPL / copyleft advocates for using copyright to propagate and protect Software Freedom is ... quite something.

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Oct 11, 2021

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Pushing restrictive licenses will lead to increasingly broad adoption of restrictive licenses. The only way you're going to convince people not to go down that path is convincing them that copyright is a bad idea. Many people won't follow any of these licenses anyway.

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Enforcing ridiculously arcane and poorly understood restrictions on software through a monopoly upheld by state violence is the opposite of protecting freedom. The entire Free Software movement is a sham. All they really protect are abusers not anyone's freedom.

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GPL is not ridiculously arcane. "If you change it, you must share it." That's basically it.

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That's completely inaccurate. It's far more complicated than that and there isn't even consensus on the rules. GPL forbids you from doing things like using Linux kernel code as a reference in GNU coreutils. It's a major contributor to the fragmentation and technical issues.

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There's been a significant ruling at the US Supreme Court level that might lead to an argument that APIs, and even copying in some cases, can be covered by fair use.

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Has nothing to do with what I've said. I'm tired of all the responses that are just manipulative spin, misrepresentations of my statements or outright dishonest. The attempt to turn a conversation in a thread into public harassment / bashing is great too.

1:13 AM · Oct 12, 2021Twitter Web App

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I'll add the people involved in it to the public GrapheneOS ban list used across accounts and shared with other projects. Anyone that has done that or supported doing it via retweets / likes will be banned from multiple communities. Not interested in any more of this nonsense.