@s8n 11/10 bait by proprietary slave, made me respond.

I demand freedom and oppose proprietary degeneracy, not "open" or "closed" sores; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html


Freedom consists of a wide range of activities that lead to more freedom for everyone.

Free software is freedom, as everyone is free to run it, understand it, modify it and/or share it; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Taking free software and making it proprietary, by adding proprietary restrictions, leads to a reduction in freedom, as freedoms everyone previously had are gone and the proprietary licensor doesn't even gain any freedom from exercising such restrictive powers (the exact same 4 freedoms are unchanged for him alone, although a lot of them even apply restrictions to themselves) and therefore doing so is NOT a form of freedom; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html

Merely licensing free software under a pushover license is not immoral, as you have released software that respects the 4 freedoms after all, but it extremely immoral to volunteer and develop nontrivial software without payment that you know will have the only major use case of being proprietarized and becoming part of proprietary malware that takes freedom from many users - as that's writing proprietary software without even getting paid!

If you wish to commit evil and write proprietary software, at the bare minimum you should at least get paid for doing so and do something that you believe is good with at least some of the money.


Regardless, if you want to ensure freedom, the only choice to license your software under a copyleft license and to enforce it demanding liberty or death.