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30 pointsdavisr5 comments

If you are not a programmer, please choose to use only free software with one of these operating systems. Trisquel is a great beginner's choice because it's easy to install and use.

  https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html#for-pc

If you are a programmer reading this, please (re)license all your software with the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, and consider keeping the "or later version" verbiage to automatically protect our freedom without the costly practice of updating the world's copyright metadata. Please choose this license to protect our freedom, democracy, and American values.

  https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

I use GPL-3.0-only (is that the right identifier?), because I actually want to be able to check any changes. I think it's <90% that GPLv4 will be acceptable at all, and that's not a risk I want to take.

Is that an actual license offered by FSF? I think most people use 2.0 because of the clause you're referring too, if 3.0-only exists you may be the only one who knows about it.

Isn't that line of thinking why the Linux kernel will never be GPLv3?

Thankfully, information technology is inherently repulsed by capitalism and "proprietaryness". Whether people realize this or not only affects how soon changes will occur. But it is inevitable that changes will occur and the future is gplv3.

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