https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/972536015436107777 … Forbidding people from making secure devices with an immutable hardware root of trust: freedom! Forbidding killing people with drones: slavery! Today's ethics lesson brought to you by the GPL3.
Seriously, reviving this? As soon as every project starts adding its own fields of endeavor restrictions, you end up with no license compatibility/no practical ability to combine FOSS code. Same issue as GPLv2-only vs v3-only.
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Yes it would be great if we could get some sort of universal consensus on the right restrictions. I don't see that happening.
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It would be nice if we didn't deal with daily hate mail and endless misinformation campaigns against us based on our choice of license but that's not the world we live in. If people keep bringing it up as a topic by bothering us / trying to hurt us it will remain an active topic.
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If Free Software activists want to go around accusing people of being unethical or lacking values for their choice of license clauses they should be prepared for some criticism of their views. That arbitrary set of rules about what is ethical will probably change again with GPL4.
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