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  "path": "/t/bookwyrm-itself-is-non-free-software/34108#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-18T16:35:30.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The bookwyrm client contains the title as a justification for the anti-feature tag.\n\nIs it because of the anti-capitalist license?\n\ngithub.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm\n\n#### LICENSE.md\n\n`main`\n\n\n    ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE (v 1.4)\n\n    Copyright © 2020 Mouse Reeve\n\n    This is anti-capitalist software, released for free use by individuals and organizations that do not operate by capitalist principles.\n\n    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:\n\n    1. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or modified versions of the Software.\n\n    2. The User is one of the following:\n\n        1. An individual person, laboring for themselves\n        2. A non-profit organization\n        3. An educational institution\n        4. An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor\n\n    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.\n\n    4. If the User is an organization, then the User is not law enforcement or military, or working for or under either.\n\n\nThis file has been truncated. show original\n\nLooking at the anti-feature description in F-Droid’s website, the “Non-free network service dependency” is defined as “This Anti-Feature is applied to apps that promote or depend entirely on a proprietary network service.”\n\nWhile it’s an atypical license, it does seem a bit excessive to call it ‘proprietary software’. Does anyone know more about the reasoning behind the anti-feature description or if it would be appropriate to remove it?",
  "title": "\"Bookwyrm itself is non-free software\""
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