Aaron Rainbolt on Nostr: It's somewhat confusing to me that many of the people who are advocates for and ...
It's somewhat confusing to me that many of the people who are advocates for and supporters of free-as-in-freedom software are also advocates for and supporters of piracy. Piracy and copyleft are mutually exclusive, because *copyleft only works when copyright is enforced.* If it's fine to rip off someone else's hard work because the terms they license their products under are problematic, why is it wrong for someone to rip off a FOSS dev because the terms they license their products under are problematic? You can't steal proprietary content and defend libre content at the same time.
It's obvious that we want FOSS developers to succeed and the licensing terms they offer their software under to be followed. If we believe that, we should follow other people's licenses too.
#piracy #opensource #foss #copyleft #copyright #law #licensing #gpl
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