I’m active in circles associated with FSF and I often hear them saying research or academic software or programs must be licensed under GPL to prevent the work from being used in proprietary software.

But as a researcher I think that’s just involving politics in scientific work. I like BSD or MIT for research because it gives more flexibility for the users to use my work in anyway they see fit.

I think restricting my research work removes the point of it if it can’t be used freely by any person for any kind of work.

What do you people think?

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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just because someone used it in the past, doesn't justify using it today either. It's like "we have to do it because it's our tradition. It's what our ancestors did". That's just not right.

We are (re)defining it nowadays and some people choose they and some do not (yet).

I'm in favor of a new word, I'm not sure why you want me to change. I simply say that it is a process, it is evolution, and we will see what wins in the future.

Why do you want me to change? Just be the example you want to see and either I like it and adapt it in the future, or I don't.

In the long run the children determine the outcome anyway which means our teachers (or nowadays tiktokers) decide what will stick.