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Ah so if you think you have the right to the fruit of your labor, I assume that means you're a communist?

That seems pretty in step with the GPL.



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.


> Ah so if you think you have the right to the fruit of your labor, I assume that means you're a communist?

More likely, a libertarian in the contemprary American sense of the term, though the labor theory of property is at least Lockean in vintage.




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