grue@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 days agoTrump cuts funding to FOSS projects.thelibre.newsexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareAwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down5·9 days agoThe solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
minus-squareJTskulk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 days 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-down2·9 days 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.
minus-squareharoldstork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoWhy would making government more proprietary help?
The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
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.
Why would making government more proprietary help?