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I changed my license (bergie.iki.fi)
submitted 2 weeks ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/35110129

This year I decided to switch my “default license” to EUPL-1.2. This is an OSI-approved free software license created and published by the European Union. And it is quite a divergence from the licenses I’ve used in the past. EUPL is a strong copyleft license that closes the “SaaS loophole” by requiring reciprocal licensing regardless of how the software is distributed.

Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along.

We won the debate, and gained little for users or developers. All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires.

And so it is time to stop messing about with permissive licenses. If corporations don’t want to use our software under our terms, they are free to spend the effort or tokens to build their own.

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[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago

What a shitty choice of a license. Typical EU legal garbage full of duplications and "lawyers" thinking "more is better".

Also:

The provisions of this Licence can be accepted by clicking on an icon ‘I agree’ placed under the bottom of a window displaying the text of this Licence or by affirming consent in any other similar way, in accordance with the rules of applicable law. Clicking on that icon indicates your clear and irrevocable acceptance of this Licence and all of its terms and conditions.

Lol, these morons. Of course the EU pencil pushers would hyperfixate on "clicking a button".

/a European

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I already wrote that copyleft licenses get hate from corporations...

[-] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago

Check this i am working on : https://github.com/trplfoundation/trpl-license/blob/main/LICENSE_DRAFT_1_1

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is generally not a good idea to write an own license. Because it is complex legal stuff.

Also, when using licenses, one should check whether the interactions with other licenses are as intended. Some licenses are compatible in a two-way manner, some only in one way, some not at all. The GNU project has a page for that.

[-] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Why not someone write own? There are many examples of people writing their own.

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