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by CRConrad 1428 days ago
Yes, of course a license can't fix anything if nobody uses it.

So it should be implicitly pretty obvious that that meant "the license can fix things if FOSS developers actually use it", shouldn't it?
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trasz 1428 days ago
Again, no - it would only work if every single one FOSS developer agreed to use it.
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CRConrad 1425 days ago
> Again, no - it would only work if every single one FOSS developer agreed to use it.

Huh? Whatchoo talking about, Willis?

If "only" 99% of FOSS developers used a truly freedom-preserving FOSS license, only 1% of FOS software could be taken non-free.

If "only" 90% of FOSS developers used a truly freedom-preserving FOSS license, only 10% of FOS software could be taken non-free.

Dunno where you draw the line of "works", but I'd say down to around 80/20 or perhaps even 70/30 would be "pretty much works".

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