What I don't understand is that the same people who get up in arms about government, and bitch and moan about "rights to the fruit of my labor", don't like the notion that someone else can claim those very rights by putting a gnu license on something. At that point they get all whiney about unfairness to their little business and how they could just make money if the could appropriate someone else's labor against their terms (aka the thing they hate about taxes). It's an odd cognitive dissonance.
Taxation deprives the victim of property. Distributing derivative works of OSS does not deprive the OSS authors of anything. Distributing works that use OSS as a library does not deprive the OSS authors of anything. Running a service which does not distribute OSS but depends on the OSS internally does not deprive the OSS authors of anything.
Of course, people can use whatever license they want. I personally favor licenses that maximize the rights of my users. Hopefully, though, you can now see that the combination of positions you mentioned is a consistent one.
Excuse me. I am an existence proof of the falsity of your statement. I don't like government much, and I do think I have a right to the fruit of my labor. And I'm more than happy to use GPL software when it is appropriate, and I'm quite happy to license my own labor out as AGPL3.
Actually, I didn't say "all". Had I said "all", your existence merely forces a modification, and at best your existence doesn't even show incorrectness had I said "vast majority". As it stands my statement could be interpreted as "all", that part was unclear. I merely meant "a lot".
Your statement is a shining example of the fallacy fallacy though... just because one interpretation of what I said on a detail of it is incorrect, that in no way invalidates my statement nor the existence of vocal people like those I describe.
While I've always been happy with GPLv2 and understand why some people like GPLv3 - on the other hand AGPL should have never been accepted as either an open-source or free-software license, because it really isn't and OSI only accepted it to avoid a political conflict.
No, I'm not. But I think that I have a certain right to what I do with myself; this right allows me to sell my services to employers.
I think that there is a powerful value in sharing, however. On a physical level, the old-fashioned term is "being a good neighbor". The GPL enforces sharing contractually. There's also a powerful value in being able to fix things that you use. And the GPL enables that as well, also contractually.
So I prefer the AGPL3 when possible, because I believe its values align with what I believe to be the best for society.
the same people who get up in arms about government, and bitch and moan about "rights to the fruit of my labor", don't like the notion that someone else can claim those very rights by putting a gnu license on something
I misread this at first. I think this makes the point more cogent:
the same people who get up in arms about government, and bitch and moan about "rights to the fruit of my labor", don't like the notion that someone can claim "the rights to the fruit of their" labor by putting a gnu license on something
