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- Embed this noticeno, it is not free. you completely miss the point of respecting others' freedom when you attempt to impose your values on others. when we say software is freedom-respecting, it's because it does not take control over your computing away from you, it does not impose anyone else's values on your computing. don't you see how your attempt to bring anti-capitalism into it fails that principle? it doesn't respect your computing freedom when it tells you what or how you can or cannot do your computing.
it's also misguided, in trying to use a copyright legal instrument to constrain an activity that is not governed by copyright. you're trying to emulate copyleft without understanding how it works nor why it's acceptable. copyleft doesn't constrain in any way the computing you do with the software. it doesn't take any freedom away in order to further freedom, which you attempt to do. it refrains from granting power to take others' freedom away, which is power, not a freedom to begin with. it does so without controlling the computing one can do with the software. it does so without taking any freedom away. it does so without even imposing our values on others: it's their own values that are turned against them. those who believe it's acceptable to deprive a third party of permission to distribute the software or modify or control it, in order to control the third party, are deprived of permission to do so themselves. see?