@KaKi87@simonlm I’m extremely sympathetic to the author’s frustration at having their GPL’d software used by literal nazis, but I don’t see how making it non-commercial fixes that. Instead, you specifically design software to be anti-fascist. Deep in the code, if you’re not checking for specific slurs and throwing errors (as a simplistic example), then it will be used by people who use those slurs.
@KaKi87@simonlm A linked post (https://writing.kemitchell.com/living/Ethical-Licenses-Talking-Points) shows part of the problem; the assumption is that a non-permissive license will hinder adoption by the nazis (and/or corps), but everyone else will be just fine. That’s just not true; Debian, as an example, will not be able to distribute it. Meanwhile, corps have tons of money; they will just create their own fascistic software (see: Google’s rewriting of the world).
The root of the problem is governance and money corrupting everything.
@KaKi87 @simonlm I’m extremely sympathetic to the author’s frustration at having their GPL’d software used by literal nazis, but I don’t see how making it non-commercial fixes that. Instead, you specifically design software to be anti-fascist. Deep in the code, if you’re not checking for specific slurs and throwing errors (as a simplistic example), then it will be used by people who use those slurs.
@KaKi87 @simonlm A linked post (https://writing.kemitchell.com/living/Ethical-Licenses-Talking-Points) shows part of the problem; the assumption is that a non-permissive license will hinder adoption by the nazis (and/or corps), but everyone else will be just fine. That’s just not true; Debian, as an example, will not be able to distribute it. Meanwhile, corps have tons of money; they will just create their own fascistic software (see: Google’s rewriting of the world).
The root of the problem is governance and money corrupting everything.