On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
  • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 个月前

    It’s short but to the point, use AGPL and the problem is capitalism.

        • J Lou@mastodon.social
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          2 个月前

          Such a license would allow commercial use by worker cooperatives. I understand that software freedom as it has been defined excludes such licenses, but I would argue that this position is wrong. There is nothing unfree about preventing firms based on workplace autocracy from exploiting the commons and the workers that work on the commons and the workers in their own firms @linux

  • will_a113@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    2 个月前

    This is a good, short read. For those who are unfamiliar with the AGPL license that the author proposes we all start using, the main difference (and I am not a lawyer) is that under the AGPL, the source code including any modifications must also be made available to all users interacting with the software over a network. This prevents companies from making proprietary versions of AGPL software that are only accessible as a web service, which is one of the big ways that corporations are able to profit from GPL source code contributions these days.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 个月前

    I started using GitHub before Microsoft bought it, what should I be using instead? GitLab? Codeberg? Something else?

  • nikaaa@lemmy.world
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    2 个月前

    Very interesting read.

    I also like how, at the end, it changed perspective to say “actually, our problem is not software, but politics”.

    We must be aware of what agents we encourage and discourage through our actions.