Re: The sad decline of copyleft software licenses? :(

[Pen-Yuan Hsing]

On 9/25/20 9:44 AM, Pedro Lucas Porcellis wrote:
> > That's really cool! I knew that sourcehut is aiming to be a fully free
> > replacement for platforms like GitHub, but had wrongly assumed it to use a
> > permissive license. One more good example of a business around copyleft free
> > software (maybe we should keep a list!)
>
> Yeah, that's a good idea actually. I think the Software Freedom
> Conservancy keeps a list, but I don't really know.

I just checked, and indeed the Software Freedom Conservancy has a list 
of supported projects. Is that what you're referring to? However, it's 
not clear to me if those projects represent diverse and successful 
models of financial sustainability.

> > > I think this is all deeply related to how we structure ourself as
> > > society and depoliticization of the free software movement.
> > Can you elaborate what you mean my depoliticization? It sounds vaguely
> > interesting but I can't quite put a finger on what you're saying.
>
> Sorry, I don't really know if this is even a word in other languages,
> maybe the correct term would be unpolitization? Anyway, it basically
> means taking the political/ideological part of a social phenomenon. The
> free software movement was coopted into a more commercial movement when
> terms like open-source emerged with force and has been embraced by -
> almost all - megacorps today.
Ah I understand now, thank you. I think you're making largely the same 
point as this (?):

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html