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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

FOSS 100% does NOT have a moral stance. once you asign morality to your software, its no longer FOSS. freedom as in beer means itt costs you no money, freedom as in speech means you can use it on a missle guidance system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The "free" is as in speech, which is a moral stance.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ok, we are arguing english language. so yes but i was addressing the commenters implied morality on use. which is not allowed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

I did not take that implication from their post. I don't think that we are arguing semantics. They are saying that licensing code as FOSS is a moral stance, and so is refusing to use llm code generation.