This year I decided to switch my “default license” to EUPL-1.2. This is an OSI-approved free software license created and published by the European Union. And it is quite a divergence from the licenses I’ve used in the past. EUPL is a strong copyleft license that closes the “SaaS loophole” by requiring reciprocal licensing regardless of how the software is distributed.

Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along.

We won the debate, and gained little for users or developers. All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires.

And so it is time to stop messing about with permissive licenses. If corporations don’t want to use our software under our terms, they are free to spend the effort or tokens to build their own.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do not see how that adresses his core argument

It doesn't, as I wrote in my first sentence. Free software alone is just nice enough that it is more than a little gain.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So, your argument is merely that the point he blogs about does not matter? Or do you somehow not want people to discuss it? Why?

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, your argument is merely that the point he blogs about does not matter?

Or do you somehow not want people to discuss it?

I wrote that I don't want to invalidate his points. I think they are valid.

All that our efforts did

That statement is just too strong.