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> You can twist words as much as you want but freedom is not defined by you or RMS or for that matter anybody else. It is pretty clearly defined in the dictionary and AGPL contradicts the foundation of freedom.

It's never as simple as this. That dictionary entry you refer to is meant for people who don't know the word and want to learn its meaning. Have a look at the theoretical spectrum here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_freedom#Views

(Mostly) independent of political leaning, it's more or less consensual that freedom is a social category. The concept only makes sense if we talk about human societies in one form or the other. That, by definition, involves other people, and other people's freedom. You always have a boundary where your desire to exercise your freedom conflicts with the desire of another person. We can't escape that. Theories of freedom all try to find an optimal way to lay out these boundaries while maximising freedom. But there is no objectivly archievable optimum, as every theory has to use certain axioms for defining the _details_ of that nebulous term.

You can lump together most schools into two categories: the institutionalist one and the consequentialist one. The US-American interpretation of freedom is strictly institutionalist. The Western European is mostly consquentialist. That's why both sides think the other part is less free :)

An example for instutionalist thinking: Both men and women are by law allowed to pursue every job they want. Therefore, both are equally free.

An example for consquentialist thinking: Observably, women choose jobs that earn them less money. In a capitalist society, that makes them less free. Therefore, we as a society have to intervene so they can get equally free.

The difference between AGPL and Apache etc. is exactly the same. Apache style licenses see freedom as theoritcal freedom of choice. That's the institutionalist way. AGPL goes the consquentialist way. It limits certain freedoms with the goal of maximising certain other freedoms. It defines the boundary between individual interests in a different way to enable higher observable freedom for those parties it deems more in need of protection: users, not entrepreneurs.




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