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Update: **warking** BookWyrm IS NOT #freeasinfreedom software, please avoid it! Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with #activitypub

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This entry was edited (10 months ago)
in reply to Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲

@nik
Oh no! I hava not checked well… why, for Heaven sake did they conceive that "ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE"?
It is better to avoid it!
in reply to Paolo Redaelli

I can absolutely understand the ideology and motivation behind it, and even sympathize with it.

But it does a lot of harm for close to zero effect, which most projects using such a license tend to ignore.

in reply to Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲

@nik I totally agree. I notice that it is almost a BSD. I found confusing this part
"The User is one of the following: ... An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and **allows non-members to set the cost of their labor**"
in reply to Carl Myrland

@cmyrland
Because its license violates the freedom zero of "Free Software" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en#four-freedoms
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3).
in reply to Paolo Redaelli

I looked at their license and... seems fine to me? Like, sure you can maybe claim it's not "free as in freedom", though the only situation that applies in is if you're a capitalist so 🤷‍♀️

Sounds fine for anyone who isn't an abusive ghoul

This entry was edited (8 months ago)
in reply to hazelnot :yell:

@hazelnot I'm convinced that "Free software" has been serving people so well because of the 4 freedom, and the first one is to use it for any purpose. Their license are confusing, i.e. a for-profit, corporate university will fit point 2.iii
in reply to Paolo Redaelli

that does seem to be an oversight in the wording, but I get why they'd do that lol

However, freedom and capitalism are mutually exclusive, so I don't see a problem with it excluding other types of for-profit organizations 🤷🏻‍♀️

Like, a university can set up its Bookwyrm for students to use, which is fine, but it stops companies from doing their good ol' rent-seeking schtick using the software

Win-win tbh

in reply to hazelnot :yell:

good article that was linked on the license's page: https://logicmag.io/failure/freedom-isnt-free/

(though it paints an overly positive image of Stallman IMO)

in reply to hazelnot :yell:

As far as I understand the Affero General Public License could be a better answer to the aims of that non free license
This entry was edited (8 months ago)

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