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Other possibilities: "freedomware" or "software freedom" or "user respecting software".



Actually FOSS (just as OSS) _only_ respects the freedom of the licencee. Any ethical restrictions that are not part of the legal environment (like export control) make open source "unfree" as uncompromised openness is a precondition. IMHO opinion freedom stops there where it restricts the freedom of someone else.

I think FSF is in parts neoliberal and should engage more in an ethical discussion. Just claiming to be free of ideology is ideology itself...

(Edit: made clear that it is not only a FOSS but also OSI "problem")


Definitely that is the case.

I think this essay probably applies to the FSF's position on the Ethical Source movement even though it wasn't written by them:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/17/copyleft-ethical-...


Oh, I like freedomware. Though it is not immediately obvious what kinds of freedom; I can imagine Commons Clause software being called freedomware as well.


Yes, it turns out to invite confusion when you try defining "freedom" by the circumscription of an accident of Cold War era history and object to other people reading the word as if it were English.


It's very Orwellian sounding.


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