From Server Side Public License to labor condition-aware Anti-996 License, these licenses partially reflected the community’s rebellion against the current landscape of open source software. However, some considered these restrictions a blatant violation of The Four Freedoms. Starting from the recent uneasiness regarding AGPL terms, this session would dive into the land of strong copyleft licenses and discuss the legal challenges, the conflict with software freedom ideology, and possible future developments.
Talk @ COSCUP 2022, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan.