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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Closed licenses are arguably better for certain left projects

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.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

A license that has restrictions like that doesn't meet the criteria to call itself "open source."

[–] raven@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Broke: "corporations are people"

Woke: "Militaries are people"

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