It is of course up to the author(s) to license their work how they see
fit, however, licenses with restrictions on who can use or redistribute
a work are generally not considered as free and libre software. For
example, the Debian Free Software Guidelines sections 1, 5, and 6
prohibit these kinds of restrictions.
I don't intend to imply the DFSG is the only potential interpretation or
argue the morality of the DFSG. But, I do want to point out that, as a
practical matter, these type of license restrictions, especially on core
libraries, will likely have downstream impacts that are much broader
than the target of the political statement.
Personally, I believe the effect of restrictions like this is primarily
to fragment the FLOSS community while doing nothing to stop those who
are being protested against from using the software (as if violating a
software license is the line they won't cross). It may even been seen as
a win by those who wish to see the world become more fragmented. But it
isn't for me to tell others how to protest and I fully recognize that it
is the author's right and probably their moral imperative.
On 2/24/25 00:40, Antonovic P. Milan via Discuss wrote:
Hello everyone. sorry but I completely disagree with you. Pushing a
diverse and multicultural community to agree on a political point of
view can lead to divisions, wasted time and distraction from OSGeo's
real needs. Asking to "not be indifferent" is a well known polarizing
technique. Attempts to oversimplify the complexity of reality without
even trying to acknowledge that there are different opinions
and interests, obstructs the pursuit of truth and disrespects those
who value critical thinking.
I believe that the OSGeo Community shall focus on bringing our
beautiful software to THE NEXT LEVEL and not playing the same games
that are used by the "market economy or capitalism".
Let's find ways that have a real impact by concrete examples of
openness, friendship and community! Let's try to be better than them!
✊ Viva Open Source Software ✊
This is just my 2 cents point of view, don't take it personally..
Milan
For example 👇👇👇 @Luís Moreira de Sousa this attitude does not
belong to the open source spirit
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Il giorno dom 23 feb 2025 alle ore 19:14 Luís Moreira de Sousa via
Discuss <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> ha scritto:
Dear Even,
when I was a child, the priest in our parish used to say that
everything we do in life is political. I am not certain such
direct confrontation is the best way to dissuade regular folk from
voting for autocratic movements, but doing something is certainly
better than doing nothing. The SpatiaLite project, for instance,
is taking things even further [0]. If I am allowed to give advice
on the matter, just be careful not to undermine a project for
little influence on the public discourse.
Take care.
P.S.: as much as I am troubled with the cahos spawned by the US
government, to what open source is concerned, the CRA still
appears to me as the greatest challenge in the coming years.
[0] https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html
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On Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:17, Even Rouault via Discuss
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
Hi,
I've started an activist campaign of open source projects want to
join the protest against the US government stupid, cruel and
dangerous politics that affect the whole world ?
I've initiated the move with GDAL
(https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865 , with follow ups in
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875,
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876,
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877) , and also pushing for
PROJ (https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406) , MapServer
(https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233) and GEOS
(https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243) .
Anyone else ?
I don't agree that we should stay away from politics. Our
projects only make sense in the context of a free society, and
this freedom is at high stake. We have admittedly little power,
but we can and should exercise it with the tools at our disposal.
The addition of small little acts might end up having visible
consequences.
Even
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My software is free, but my time generally not.
Note to current US government: stop messing with the world!
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