Aaron Wolf writes: > Note that AGPL does not fully protect the freedom of users of server-run > software. It is a fall-back / check and balance against abuse, but when > you use software on a server, you cannot have full freedoms as you are > not running it. See > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve > > AGPL provides the capacity to check the code (to know what the software > is doing) and to get the code to run elsewhere. It's certainly something.
Since you consider that AGPL does not fully protect user freedom, you can consider that the license I seek does not fully protect user freedom either. Aaron Wolf writes: > The problem I was getting at is this: what scenarios could there be > where the authors of software used in such surveillance *choose* to use > this freedom-focused license? They would choose this freedom-focused because the freedom-focused license would be viral. This is the purpose of copyleft. Aaron Wolf writes: > Companies and governments that want to secretly surveil us will not use > such a license for software they make. And why would free-software > focused developers make such surveillance software in the first place? > > If the developers of such software don't otherwise care about freedoms, > licensing won't help. We'd need laws to regulate such software. Fischers Fritz wrote yesterday: > I imagine that a well funded surveillance project would choose the > alternative of writing a proprietary clone, but at least that would make > the surveillance a little more expensive. Aaron Wolf writes: > But I might be paranoid as a user. Now anyone who steps in front of my > camera could sue me if I neglect to post the notice about source access? > That's much more broad than merely applying at the exact time that I > distribute software. Suddenly I have some license liability every time I > use the software… I find it ambitious to account for paranoia in a software license. Conveniently, I don't think it matters, because I have heard of many people without paranoia who share the concerns you mention. Regardless of whether the user fear is explained by illness, I gather that a person with the fear you describe would choose not to install the free surveillance software. This is by design. Academic salutations, Fritz _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
