@khubsuratinsaan #UnFreeSoftware

@NLBRT

@xeraa @fuchsiii @puniko @linux_mclinuxface Case in point, #SSPL is an #AssholeLicense even more than #AGPLv3 because it's sole purpose is to commit #AssetDenial against #commercial users & #hosters.

It's worse than #GPLv3 because that one is lunacy in terms of #IP and espechally #Patents because it's solely ideologically motivated, but yeah...

IMHO everything under SSPL is #UnfreeSoftware in that it's #license terms are worse than a #SourceAvailable license as used by #Tarsnap because they are at least honest about the why...

I really hope not just #GAFAMs like #Amazon with #aws forked the pre-#Enshittification versions under #BSD and start publishing and maintaining these.

#Redis, like #Elastic and #MongoDB have chosen to kick everyone in the groin out of pettyness against commercial hosters, and I hope @Mastodon & @MastodonEngineering as well as @Gargron work hard to replace Redis with a real #FLOSS alternative like #RabbitMQ or even hetter, allow disabling a caching-DB in lieu of helping setup a #Ramdisk with a #PostgreSQL cache-DB on it.

@Yuki @novenary @norm The big takeaway is to NEVER EVER sign a "#ContributionAgreement" that allows the maintainers to turn #FLOSS into #UnfreeSoftware!

I'd certainly never would out of principle...

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/112134853241787929

@Yuki I sincerely hope everyone's gonna fork #Redis before they changed to #AssholeLicensing with the #SSPL which is a #NonFree #AssholeLicense.

This is worse than #Copyleft but just blatant Asset Denial because *"We WaNt AmAzOn To PaY uS!" kinda bs...

If you want to make money with #FLOSS, provide some good product and make it attractive to #donate and/or #buy some support.

As a matter of fact, @landley did try to crowbar #GPLv2 [or rather started it]¹ with #BusyBox and that failed miserably, because now everyone knows BusyBox as the litigatious² folks that one should just not use code from.

There's a reason I chose #0BSD ³ for @OS1337 and it's because I most of the work I do is build and repackage #toybox + #musl / #Linux and I want people to use it as a friendly licensed foundation for their #IoT and #embedded projects down the line.

And that means that I'll also accept contributions on the same license and not expect devs to sign away code under worse terms so I can turn it into #UnfreeSoftware the way Redis and others did...

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3g&t=1607s
² https://www.busybox.net/license.html
³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#0-clause_license_(%22BSD_Zero_Clause_License%22)
⁴ https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/LICENSE.md