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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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 point 9 months ago*

Sure, if English was consistent. But that's not how people actually speak. And people do use singular 'they', that's not a command or a suggestion, just an observation. It's only when people think too hard about it that they say things like 'he or she', and even after, they often slip back into 'they' despite themself.

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