Update: **warking** BookWyrm IS NOT #freeasinfreedom software, please avoid it! Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with #activitypub
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Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲 • • •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!
Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲
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.
Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲 • • •"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**"
Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲 • • •Inventaire - your friends and communities are your best library
InventaireCarl Myrland
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Carl Myrland • • •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).
What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
www.gnu.orghazelnot :yell:
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
Paolo Redaelli
in reply to hazelnot :yell: • • •hazelnot :yell:
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
hazelnot :yell:
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)
Freedom Isn't Free
Logic(s) MagazinePaolo Redaelli
in reply to hazelnot :yell: • • •