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Philip Linde linde.philip at gmail.com
Fri May 21 10:00:02 BST 2021
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On Wed, 19 May 2021 12:53:10 +0000charliebrownau <charliebrownau at protonmail.com> wrote:
Do we really want another open code project and another group subverted
by Corporations, Patents, Royalities and those who are against Free Speech and Freedom ?
What's the nature of the subversion in this instance? As far as I cansee these are versioned standards. Moreover, this is not an officialpart of the Gemini specification. The author is indeed using his freespeech and freedom to publish what he thinks is a good idea for Geminipublishing metadata. You don't have to agree but that's what freedomentails.
Why is open code software allowed to transfer to corporations in the first place ?
"Open source" refers to licenses that allow you to copy and modify thelicensed work, not to the ownership or commercial nature of thesoftware, nor the management of the development process. If you don'tlike the Audacity/Firefox projects you can copy the source code anddistribute a fork. This is pretty much the only thing "opensource" implies.
-- Philip