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When it comes to the "spirit", the people criticizing it seem to be talking about the "spirit" of Stallman and Free Software; the term Open Source and the OSI as an institution were explicitly built on friendliness to running side by side with proprietary software and to third-party commercial use.


Stallman has no problems dual licensing software and selling proprietary licenses to companies.

His goal is freedom zero, the freedom of a user to use the software as they want.


> Stallman has no problems dual licensing software and selling proprietary licenses to companies.

RMS doesn't, but others also in the copyleft camp certainly have. E.g. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...




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