On 02/22/2016 11:49 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: > > Yeah. I'd be curious your thoughts about our page discussing licensing > issues: > https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/licenses
I appreciate that you support libre licenses but, if I understood it correctly, Copyfree ([0]) does not allow copyleft licenses, as well as permissive licenses which forbid DRM (like the CC BY). Their site goes as far as saying: > it is open source and free software, but only the freest of open > source and free software While the freedom to restrict others can be considered an additional freedom, that doesn't mean it should be granted! In order for all people to be free, some freedoms must be necessarily restricted: the "freedom" to kill, for example, because if people are free to kill, the most ruthless and brutal of them will rule over everybody else. Copyfree is a "philosophy" which is even more dangerous than open source, because at least the open source people had enough common sense to include copyleft licenses. I figured out someone would try to outright ban copyleft at some point but banning licenses which include anti-DRM clauses is truly one of the lowliest things I have ever seen! And don't think I can't predict the counter arguments: that this is the purest and noblest form of libertarianism, that this is a step toward copyright abolition, and so on. But in my humble opinion, their initiative is misanthropic and unethical. I would honestly not associate with them in any shape or form, and I am very disappointed you welcomed their founder into your steering committee. I put Richard Stallman in CC, hopefully he'll provide us with some insights. [0]: http://copyfree.org/standard/rejected
