I've been made aware of FUTO's "source first" licensing. FUTO is headed up by Louis Rossmann.

I'm issuing this warning as a public service announcement to the both the *free software* and *open source* movement:

Do not use FUTO licenses. They are non-free, proprietary software licenses, because they restrict commercial usage.

Freedom to make money is *good*. Freedom to *fork*, including for profit, is a fundamental right that everyone must have. Our movement thrives *because* of this freedom.

I would argue that non-commercial source-available licenses, such as FUTO licenses, are actually *worse* than typical proprietary software; all FUTO-license software is proprietary software, but the source code is available.

Windows/MacOS is more clearly against your freedom to study, share and modify, due to lack of source code, so you know to reject it.

New people who are uneducated about rights given by free, libre and open source software, will see FUTO and wrongly think they have freedom.

I'm about to do something controversial:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Linking this article is controversial because people will know of my history with the FSF as an organisation, but I will say to you all what I've said to many others, many times before:

The four freedoms are absolute.

To be truly free, you *must* be able to freely use, study, modify and share the software, even commercially.

List of free software licenses:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

FUTO says source first.

I say: freedom first