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Anti-Capitalist Software License

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I hate licenses like these that try to make themselves look like something innocuous like the MIT license, but are actually closed-source and proprietary.

The source is open, it's right there.

The limitation on who can legally deploy it does not affect the fact that the source code is open.

No it isn't. You're mixing up open-source with visible-source or source-available. Check the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

I notice that it allows "educational institutions", many of which are operated on a for-profit basis.

An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor

This doesn't specify how the shared profit is distributed. Makes sense, after all, some animals are more equal than others.

It specifies in the third clause:

> If the User is an organization with owners, then all owners are workers and all workers are owners with equal equity and/or equal vote.

Companies offering stock-based compensation should be fine?

Tell me, mr. Communist programmer, what good is a program... without a computer to run it on? And don't you tell me about those amazing Soviet computers since they were all cloned from western systems. No capitalism -> no computers, at least not for plebs like you and me.

"We should improve society somewhat."

"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"

This idea that communism somehow means "improving society" is beyond belief. It's not like it's never been tried.

Banning capitalism is the opposite of improving society. There's a reason that everyone who wanted to cross the Iron Curtain for a better life was trying to go from east to west.

It's just a tiny open source software project. It's not a Stalinist purge.

Well it's not actually open source, just visible source. But anyway, yes, it is a tiny step, but it's still a step in the wrong direction.

Seems like perfect freedom to me, freedom for the author to control how their intellectual property is used, and freedom for everyone else to use it or not.

Hard to see any harm at all, certainly not "banning capitalism".

> freedom for the author to control how their intellectual property is used

That's power, not freedom. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html

Anti-capitalist societies famously did/do not have law enforcement or militaries

I’m not so sure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_wings_of_c...

I seem to have dropped my /s ;)

But was it real communism?

Communist software license would be more accurate.

Why?

GPL? RMS is a pinko.

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