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Why do you call copyleft "tyranny"? If overnight, every single piece of open source software were somehow magically relicensed to AGPLv3 only, would there be any negative consequences at all for anyone besides people who wanted to write non-free software?


> besides people who wanted to write non-free software?

Would there be any negative consequences besides the negative consequences? No, I guess not.

Lots of people want to write non-free software, for instance for their jobs or businesses or hobbies.


But users can do even less with non-free software than they can with copyleft software, so calling the latter "tyranny" while simultaneously being okay with the former makes no sense at all.


It really doesn't. You're pretending like non-free software has no value and that's clearly nonsense. There's no argument with that pretense because it has no bearing in reality.


> You're pretending like non-free software has no value

I'm not saying it has no value or that it should all go away. I'm saying that its value doesn't come from being non-free, so it would be better if it had to be free instead.




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