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by unethical_ban 635 days ago
The usual "GPL is anti-freedom" argument is that it restricts what someone is allowed to do with the source code, meaning it is less free than MIT or BSD style licenses.

I don't agree with that, but that is what the person is saying.

What's absurd, in my opinion, is lumping GPL advocacy in with two other tropes which are intended to restrict the sharing of information and knowledge, where GPL promotes it.