Licensing Tricks and Traps in Fake 'FOSS'
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A rapidly proliferating software license bars use by companies with poor labor practices
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"Open source" companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure
Benjamin "Mako" Hill's seminal Libreplanet keynote described how "open source" had mutated to eliminate software freedom, allowing large companies (especially those with cloud-based products) to hoard all the benefits of openness without giving anything back to the world. Some licenses have tried to halt and reverse this process, but with limited success.
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