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Closed licenses are arguably better for certain left projects, particularly self-contained ones. You can use bourgeois legal nonsense to stop corpos from using your work.
I've seen anti-war people write open source code that ended up getting used to help fly war drones.
What about licenses that restrict the software from being used in a certain way? I think I've heard of at least one open-source license that disallows the software from being used in the military industry.
A license that has restrictions like that doesn't meet the criteria to call itself "open source."
Broke: "corporations are people"
Woke: "Militaries are people"