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I'd really like to get more feedback on this.
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BTW, a minor correction to the original post: I wrote "Software Tyranny Level 4" twice, forgetting to increment the number, and now it's too late to edit because I've cycled accounts. Also, I've described
Qt's license as a tiny bit more tyrannical than it is, because I didn't know they've made LGPL an option since version 4.5. And some existing licenses are similar to the "Libman License" described above, including
WTFPL (permissive) and
HESSLA (reciprocal - but deeply flawed).
Software licensing depends on coersive force. They all suck. |
Yeah, but some suck more than others. GPL clearly encourages government force, even more so than closed source does, because proprietary / closed-source can still exist in a free society through contract law, while GPL can't. Most developers use the BSD license only for its warranty clause - to discourage others from using the government to initiate aggression against them!
With
Google BSD'ing many awesome Web-browser components, I'm starting to revive hope of a full-stack libertarian (aka "pure BSD") OS being functional on the desktop. All libertarians who use (or plan to try) GNU/Linux should watch this first:
[youtube=425,350]mMmbjJI5su0[/youtube]
(NOTICE: THIS THREAD IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, ESPECIALLY
IF THE LULZ IN THE ABOVE VIDEO MAKE YOU POOP YOUR PANTS.)