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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 22:30:18 JST Drew DeVault

   Another day, another batch of people wrongly explaining how licenses work to me

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     Chris Gioran 💔 (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 07:36:49 JST Chris Gioran 💔

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     @drewdevault There is something about software licensing that draws the kind of people who because they understand one complex issue (software programming) think they understand _every_ complex issue.

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     Sebastian LaVine (smlavine@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 16:50:07 JST Sebastian LaVine

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     @drewdevault What are some of the particular misconceptions you are seeing? I ask not just for popcorn but to also maybe include as "FAQ" in a potential future presentation on open-source to others

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 16:50:07 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Sebastian LaVine

     @smlavine a lot of people don't seem to understand that permissive licenses offer essentially no protections to the source code they license. They just seem to use them because "everyone does it" without understanding them and leaning on the false assumption that copyright law in general protects their code somehow

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 17:14:56 JST 翠星石

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     • Sebastian LaVine
     @smlavine One popular misconception is that free software licenses like the Lesser GNU Public License version 3 is an "open source" license, despite how no license in the GPL family has "open" in it.