@landley The sad part is that you are in fact correct.

The only thing #Copyleft like #GPLv3, #AGPLv3 and espechally #AssholeLicensing of the #SSPL, #RHEL and #grsecurity kind can do is commit #AssetDenial and even that is flaky as one can only put actual #code under a license and not an implementation of something like a #Codec...

...But those are usually covered by #patents and other legalese trolling efforts, like the way #MELP / #MELPe is licensed so everyone who doesn't want to exclusively make a radio for NATO / U.S. DoD has to arrange a licensing deal woth half a dozen tech giants, so #Codec2 had to be made...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-excitation_linear_prediction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_2

As of now I am considering to relicense my content under #0BSD and sinve very few of my projects have any external contributions, this should be trivial to do so.

@landley yeah...

Worse is only #AssholeLicensing like #AGPLv3 or #SSPL at which point one might just choose some #commercial #SourceAvailable solution (like #Tarsnap is) instead...

#GPLv3 is mostly #Stallmanism and a complete disregard to practicality and the fact that #CCSS exists!

I'd not be surprised if #GPLv4 extends #Copyleft upon all forms of output and input as well as sentencing violators to sponsor/contribute to #GnuHurd as an "indulgence trade"...

@tyil @djsumdog depends...

One may want to use a permissive license like #BSD or #APL because using i.e. #GPLv3 doesn't work for them or their project...

And stuff like #SSPL is basically "#AssholeLicensing" which I think is legally even more questionable than #AGPLv3.

#NotLegalAdvice OFC...

@mxmehl @element @webmink @matrix so basically they do go with an "#AssholeLicensing" model and I dovexpect them to further worsen from #AGPLv3 to #SSPL just as a means to give everyone a #MiddleFinger who may want to offer commercial #hosting - even if it's done under terms #Element can't comply with if they even wanted to.

And I doubt that they'll not go with an #OpenCore solution like #Mattermost does.

So I'm glad I stuck with #IRC, #XMPP & #Zulip instead since those are #FLOSS...