this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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Who is "you?" That's the important question.
There's always this big debate about whether GPL or BSD licensing provides "more freedom," but that's the wrong way to look at it. The correct way to look at it is that copyleft licenses provide freedom for end users by prohibiting developers from obstructing their freedom, while permissive licenses provide freedom for developers by permitting them to restrict access to the code for downstream users.
Using permissive licenses in Alpine doesn't make Alpine itself not "fully open source," but it does mean that Alpine helps facilitate non-Free downstream uses. In other words, somebody could take Alpine, customize it for a device, and then sell that device to the public without making any code available except for a kernel that they wouldn't even be able to use on said device because of DRM. I'm not okay with that.
Ah I see, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining, I learned something from your comment and the other one.