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As it’s explained in blog, many open sourced projects are used for commercial gain without doing ’copy left’, the license created here essentially covers those concerns and ensures any forks do ‘copy left’ their changes with all the freedom as in ‘free’ of open source software. I don’t see the problem with this

All the kerfuffle related to ‘official’ definitions, did it help open source projects from being copied and commercialised mercilessly by closed source software (essentially legalised spyware) of corporations? I never understand this obsession.

Software should be open sourced and it should have strict copy left clause!

Relevant idea related to problems with copy left explained here https://www.osnews.com/story/25469/richard-stallman-was-righ...

Obsidian as I recall, is closed source, and they give some weird non reasons for that, so it’s not radical to assume they’re doing something ‘not in the open’, so not a good contender when talking about owning your data and data independence!

Moreover, the statements just meant you don’t have to take our ‘words’ for it, here’s the proof. And in a different context, developers explained their motivations and what they’re inspired by, to work on this kind of software. There’s absolutely no over the top ‘marketing’ to any type as well, as they explained in different post, they don’t want to market, buy built in customer base with VC money and so on.

They exist as collection of scripts to install precompiled (or to be compiled) packages, maintained by 3rd party developers as means of convenience, they’re not to be blindly installed as system packages (which I agree is what often people would do) It offers certain autonomy to users on top of stable system to build/preinstall packages when they deem it necessary. It’s always advised to check what’s happening with AUR scripts & updates, in archwiki with well noted warnings.

These things don’t sit well with script kiddie style of doing things!

Arch Linux is your friend. You will find all the packages in AUR and answers you seek in documentation or with extremely active community. Not as ‘deep’ as gentoo and not as script kiddy as tumbleweed. I use Leap for servers and installed gentoo to learn things initially. Love all the distributions named here!