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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 20:49:15 JST Aral Balkan

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   @EpiphanicSynchronicity @post Also not a lawyer and yes, exactly.

   • Epiphanic Synchronicity (epiphanicsynchronicity@pkm.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 20:49:31 JST Epiphanic Synchronicity

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     I don’t know a lawyer, but if I understand it correctly, a permissive license means 1) companies like Google can bolt proprietary code onto your product and use it to make millions competing against you without any obligation to share or give back, and 2) you can lose out to a restrictively licensed fork the way Apache-licensed OpenOffice lost against LGPL-licensed LibreOffice, because LO could incorporate new OO features and improvements, but OO couldn’t incorporate new LO code.

   • Post (post@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 20:49:32 JST Post

     Does someone know a lawyer that understand the difference between #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource ( #Copyleft vs permissive licenses)? I need to help an AGPL project that is being fooled by Google employees to switch to a permissive license when it’s not really needed.

     Reshare welcome. It’s OK to DM me and I will make a contact with the devs. Thanks @aral and whoever helps.