Mike Linksvayer

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My awaiting moderation comment:

No matter what FLOSS license a project chooses, copyleft or permissive, the project is restricting the freedom of contributors -- they can't incorporate code into the project under an incompatible license. In this way a permissive license is more restrictive than a copyleft license, and public domain more restrictive yet.

So the suggested first step (which I like) of getting communities to consider restrictions they already accept when thinking about things like codes of conduct should be workable regardless of license.

Copyleft attempts to regulate what entities do with code outside of the community producing the code. The post mentions that codes of conduct are usually bounded to particular community spaces. It seems to me that a copyleft equivalent code of conduct would make requirements of participant behavior outside of community spaces.

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