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I very much assert that the legal, economic, and social context in which a programmer operates has a great impact on what the programmer produces. We established the licenses we have for good reasons. Licenses alter all of the above variables. We are not simply code production machines. We make code for reasons.

You are free to view yourself as a code production machine, where what you produce is independent of the situation before and after you make anything, but many of us would like to take ownership and action on the legal, economic, and social planes with our work.