points by bentley 23 hours ago | 0 comments
Because permissive licensing, and free software in general, rightfully comes with a certain cachet, and it turns out some people want the benefits of that reputation, but don’t actually believe in the freedom “to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose.” Hence the treadmill from permissive licensing to copyleft, and then later from copyleft to “source available”…
“But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.”
—Theo de Raadt (2001)
[–] SXX 23 hours ago
[–] nextaccountic 22 hours ago
> That's opposite because copyleft is ultimately about user freedom not developers freedom.
Yeah, the whole idea of GPL is to restrict developers from doing certain things, because it would be harmful to users
[–] jwrallie 4 hours ago
Yeah, the whole point of GPL is that people can fork it and improve it as long as they share the code back.
If Asahi is rejecting LLM produced code, then they will get the modified source but will be unable to use it because of their own rules.
That's opposite because copyleft is ultimately about user freedom not developers freedom.
GPL wont help Asahi team for a bit.