[px43]

For some people "free" means "autonomy", and copyleft licences do a lot to restrict autonomy.

[jrochkind1]

So interestingly, free meant autonomy for Stallman and the original proponents of "copyleft" style licenses too. But autonomy for end-users, not developers. But Stallman et al believed the copyleft style licenses maximized autonomy for end-users, rightly or wrongly, that was the intent.

[hardwaresofton]

Yeah if it's a problem of definition, then I definitely agree that it could not match there, it certainly isn't a do anything you want license.

[waffletower]

"Free" decidedly means autonomy; "I have been freed from prison". Use of the word "free" in many OSS licenses is a jarring euphemism.

[tedheath123]

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty