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palunon | 1 year ago

What? Creative Commons is good, but [it wasn't meant for code](https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...), and the No-Derivative and/or Non-Commercial Licenses are specifically incompatible with free and/or open source software.

Specifically, it violates freedom 3 of the FSF definition (redistribute changes), and section 3 of the OSI definition (Derived Works). This freedom is at the core of what FOSS is.

And that's before the violation of freedom 0, "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" of the non commercial licenses.

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perching_aix|1 year ago

I think that's specifically what they refer to by open source "having become" "a caricature of its ideas".

djur|1 year ago

FSF and OSI have been critical of "source available" licenses for decades, so if open source is a caricature now, it always has been.