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Socio-technical Systems Engineer at Amazon | Free and Open Source Advocate | he/him/they/them | Opinions: my own | https://t.co/qdvk841Qfr

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@_msw_

10 months ago

Today I was surprised to stumble upon a project using a Free Software license (LGPL) that was explicitly designed to disarm 'additional restrictions' (thus protecting the freedoms of downstream users) still using the LGPL-incompatible Commons Clause.

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10 months ago

There is a very long report detailing the long history of restrictive licensing clauses, and why the Free Software community tried to prevent them from being added to protective licenses like the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL.
sfconservancy.org/news/2023/feb/…

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