Re: [GNU-linux-libre] choosealicense.com fork with better wording, perhaps ?

[hellekin]

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On 08/19/2014 06:09 PM, Riley Baird wrote:
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> freedom to murder
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*** Wait, what?  Look, you need to learn about ethics.  Specifically,
you need to understand the difference between positive freedom and
negative freedom.  Software freedom is about positive freedom, i.e. not
about "restrictions".  Neoliberal, neocon, libertarian-Randian
propagandas are all about negative freedom, i.e. the freedom of an
individual to do anything they like, including, e.g. to terminate other
people's freedom (as in your example: murder).  As long as you can't
make this difference, you cannot grasp the concept of software freedom.

Objectivity is itself propaganda: it supposes an objective subject,
which is a contradiction.  One can tend to objectivity, but since the
XXth Century and the Theory of Relativity, science knows that the
observer influences the observation.  So in any case, what you tell
about licensing is necessarily propaganda.  "Journalist objectivity" is
said to tell the facts.  But how you tell the facts, and what facts you
tell (and therefore, what facts you omit) frame a discourse in a certain
way.  If you want to make an objective account of free software
licenses, you must start with understanding the underlying concepts.
You can't be objective about something if you can't understand it.  When
some people reject Evolution, they can't be objective.  They simply
reject Evolution.  Now, one can prefer Lynn Margulis' Theory of
Evolution to Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and that's a
different matter.  But you can't say "objectively" something like: "Man
comes from monkey who comes from a tree."  That's misunderstanding
Darwin's Theory of Evolution.  In the same way, you can't say that the
GPL "restricts" people's freedom-to-restrict-other-people's-freedom:
that's not objective, and that's non-sense.

That said, I do think that the user interface of choosealicense.com is a
good way for someone to choose a license, and
license-recommendations.html is a different thing entirely, not only
content-wise, but primarily at the level of user experience.  Maybe the
FSF should "fork" the site and rectify the propaganda to lean on the
side of positive freedom.

Another note on "freedom to murder": that's the kind of propaganda that
is pervasive in our globalizing civilization to justify all kinds of
dumbass bullying corporate agenda.  It's like saying: in order to allow
the construction industry to increase their profit--and support their
"freedom to profit", we should bomb a city or two once in a while.  It's
obviously wrong, and confusing ends and means, and reversing the purpose
of anything: let's kill people to solve the unemployment issue. WTF.

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hk

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