The sad part is that it took RMS making excuses for sex trafficking for him to get kicked out. He's been a hindrance to the free software movement for many years now, in technical/licensing/endorsement/general image matters.
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And this is all because RMS has a deep fear that someone might try to use GCC together with proprietary software, the same fear that has led to GCC's reluctance to provide useful interfaces for AST and the like, which powerful IDE integration needs.
Also, there's that abomination of an EULA called the AGPL (it violates Freedom Zero, the most fundamental freedom that distinguishes free software licenses from proprietary EULAs).
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That's pure BS, the AGPL doesn't violate Freedom Zero.
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Sorry, but I don't understand. As far as I'm understanding, you can still run AGPL as you wish, for any purpose. If you modify it and you expose it to users, you need to distribute the source, right?
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Exactly. AGPL imposes restrictions on *execution*, it requires distributing source if you provide a service using the app. That goes beyond the protections afforded by copyright, making it not a copyright license but an EULA, and does not respect Freedom Zero.
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