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sneaktoday at 5:15 AM1 replyview on HN

Donating software to the world is not an expectation that nobody uses that software to make money or build proprietary products on top of it.

Not all f/oss contributors are anticapitalist zealots like the FSF, as evidenced by the huge popularity of permissive licenses such as MIT.

There’s nothing implicit about it. The licenses are explicit legal documents.


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skeledrewtoday at 4:01 PM

> anticapitalist zealots like the FSF

In what way are they?

'The term "free" is used in the sense of "free speech", not "free of charge"'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition