[jarpadat]

We do have a secondary form of capital: what we charitably call ethics/guidelines, or uncharitably - peer pressure. This is the currency that dominates FSF language like the “harm done” by proprietary software, the free software “manifesto” and so on. It is in this currency that developers are given a “perk” of occasionally working on open code at their otherwise closed day job, or are compensated in in exchange of a more lucrative proprietary model for their side project.

I don’t have anything against those who take their free software views seriously. But I am very annoyed that the currency of “ethical behavior” is one that burdens the individual and benefits the corporation. Only individuals can feel guilty that their software is not free, can agonize over copyleft vs permissive, can feel obligated to pass up compensation in exchange for ethical currency, can feel drained by an internet argument, etc. Corporations meanwhile can mostly ignore this secondary currency and operate entirely within the system of money.

[crocko]

Pressuring developers to use your license (when it is their work and their choice) is disgusting and people shouldn't be doing it at all.