grue@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 hours agoTrump cuts funding to FOSS projects.thelibre.newsexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkTrump cuts funding to FOSS projects.thelibre.newsgrue@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 hours agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareAwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down7·9 hours agoThe solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
minus-squareharoldstork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 hours agoWhy would making government more proprietary help?
minus-squareJTskulk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 hours agoThese are FOSS projects, not open source. They’d no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.
minus-squareAwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·9 hours agoIts possible to add free for all except US govt and that does not stop it from being free for the rest of the world.
The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
Why would making government more proprietary help?
These are FOSS projects, not open source. They’d no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.
Its possible to add free for all except US govt and that does not stop it from being free for the rest of the world.