Much have been said about the need to pay Open Source developers for their work and the fact that huge corporations use open source software without contributing back.

Most articles I’ve been reading on the subject completely miss the mark. Plenty of commentators try to reinvent some kind of “free software but with forced contributions” or “free software but non-commercial”. Those are naive and wrong. If you impose limitations, it’s, by definition, not free software anymore.

The problem is not about Open Source or Free Software. The problem is everything else.

  • refalo
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    5 months ago

    If you impose limitations, it’s, by definition, not free software anymore.

    All licenses impose limitations of some kind. Especially the GPL.