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Louis claims that this is needed to protect the users from unethical forks of the software. Like let's say someone forks the software and adds spyware or other malicious features to it.

The intention here by Louis is good, but the situation he has created here is absolutely not.

People forking software to add malware to it is a big issue, but copyright is not the right tool to solve this issue.

If you try to solve these issues using copyright you're enforcing your power as the copyright holder over your users and this is undemocratic and unjust.

Instead we should try and solve these issues politically. We should organize together to remove malware like spyware and DRM from our apps through legislation forbidding companies from using these technologies in the first place.

Copyright is not a political tool and as someone who is a lobbyist and has been involved in the free software movement, Louis should know better.