Gemini Digest, Vol 22, Issue 18

[Philip Linde]

On Wed, 19 May 2021 12:53:10 +0000
charliebrownau <charliebrownau at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Do we really want another open code project and another group subverted
> by Corporations, Patents, Royalities and those who are against Free Speech and Freedom ?

What's the nature of the subversion in this instance? As far as I can
see these are versioned standards. Moreover, this is not an official
part of the Gemini specification. The author is indeed using his free
speech and freedom to publish what he thinks is a good idea for Gemini
publishing metadata. You don't have to agree but that's what freedom
entails.

> Why is open code software allowed to transfer to corporations in the first place ?

"Open source" refers to licenses that allow you to copy and modify the
licensed work, not to the ownership or commercial nature of the
software, nor the management of the development process. If you don't
like the Audacity/Firefox projects you can copy the source code and
distribute a fork. This is pretty much the only thing "open
source" implies.

-- 
Philip