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Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 14:24:48 +0200
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+Capitalism:
+ an economic, political, and social system in which property, business, and industry are privately owned, directed towards making the greatest possible profits for successful organizations and people
+
+Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/capitalism
+
+And by my own definition:
+ Capitalism is seeking infinite growth of capital, as in economic worth.
+
+And a reminder: Most of us are in a capitalist system, you can bend the rules but you can't trully avoid them.
+
+> ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE (v 1.4)
+>
+> Copyright © 2020 Mouse Reeve
+>
+> This is anti-capitalist software, released for free use by individuals and organizations that do not operate by capitalist principles.
+>
+> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (the "User") obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to use, copy, modify, merge, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, subject to the following conditions:
+>
+> 1. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or modified versions of the Software.
+>
+> 2. The User is one of the following:
+>
+> 1. An individual person, laboring for themselves
+
+This is a very weird clause, can anyone (incl. freelancers) working for a capitalist organisation (aka Corporation) use it? I wouldn't think so.
+
+> 2. A non-profit organization
+
+As far as I know this barely exists as a proper status in France.
+
+> 3. An educational institution
+
+Including for-profit ones like private schools? I thought this was an anti-capitalist license.
+By the way there is copyright exceptions for education in France.
+
+> 4. An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor
+
+And this one quite doesn't works against capitalism, all the members could be capitalists.
+That said I don't think any organisation allows non-member to control the costs of their(who?) labor.
+
+> 3. If the User is an organization with owners, then all owners are workers and all workers are owners with equal equity and/or equal vote.
+
+This exclude a lot of cooperatives where the clients own a part of the cooperative's capital.
+
+> 4. If the User is an organization, then the User is not law enforcement or military, or working for or under either.
+>
+> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+This license is also:
+- Not a copyleft license, no one is entitled to receive any copy; they only get the grants with their current copy (hopefully a complete one).
+- Not compatible with licences that are approuved by the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative
+- Not a good license when Software-as-a-Service exists, people using the service aren't under the license definition of "User"
