- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
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The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let’s Encrypt, and F-Droid
I did not knew that Tor was getting funded by the american state. Thats giving me some spooky vibes.
More exactly by Defense and secret services
Well, at least the one he used for thruth is safe (mastodon IIRC?)
the guy is literally a political front for techbros, it’s not like he would do something else.
Make America great again
Delta Chat was one of the FOSS projects affected: https://chaos.social/@delta/114211300446944585
This is it… This is the last straw!!! I was ok with the destruction of free trade, I was ok with the genocide funding, I was ok with the bastardisation of the administrative branch, and I was absolutely okay with the racism!!! But this, THIS??? ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!!! As a MAGA supporter, I cannot stand for this any longer! You should be dismantling the minorities, not my website!!!
/s
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.
That stops it from being Free, which is freedom 0. From GNU.org:
A program is free software if the program’s users have the four essential freedoms:
- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.
What you’re talking about is changing Free software to be non-Free. No thanks.
Well, tbh. If its my last time being president, I would also burn everything to show how the country sucks an is irrepairable.
