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I don’t think about free software the way I used to. Freedom to fork isn’t that useful to non-programmers. Proprietary software can also be analysed for backdoors etc without the source code. And I don’t really mind licenses that restrict commercial forks either. I care more about freedom to copy, freedom to use the program as I wish, and independence from server admins.

The license only allows the act of copying the code, distributing said unmodified code and compiling it. It specifically prohibits any modification of it, and/or viewing for any other purpose than review, ie. even debugging it is prohibited, so even non-commercial fork are prohibited.

I misread the license. Thanks.

That’s actually quite concerning because it means if FUTO decide to put something user hostile in Voice Input or Grayjay, nothing can legally be done about it except rewriting the entire thing and imitating it. Which, to be fair, is easier than it would otherwise be with Grayjay because most of the components that make it unique (Polycentric and IIRC plugins/sources, but not AFAICS Harbor (unless that’s just the standalone app)) are open source (unless that’s not true either?).

I did find Section 4 paragraph 1 concerning.

We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.

But I’m not sure why you think Section 3, paragraph 2 is so bad.

If you issue proceedings in any jurisdiction against the provider because you consider the provider has infringed copyright or any patent right in respect of the code (including any joinder or counterclaim), your license to the code is automatically terminated.

I don’t like copyright and probably neither do you. Is it because they are being hypocritical by using copyright themselves while denying it to others (under certain circumstances)?