What types of negative side-effects would there be from an “open source” application that was free, open, and restricted entirely by license? Rather than “we make no warranty” the license says “you may not use”.
I’ve also had a few products I’ve released on GitHub as public but never assigned a license, which probably means they are proprietary, unless GitHub TOS says otherwise.
I realize each of these is a unique situation.
Then again, not so many use MidnightBSD, so ... not so many affected, right?
Fringe loonies have too much power.
In any case, it is indeed crazy. If I were to live by this >10 years ago I would not know anything about Linux or BSDs. Or programming for that matter.
Now... it just so happens that the loonies and big business are connected another way. Despite not much liking each other, they share a political party to advance each other's goals. Only a relatively small fraction of the country really wants to eliminate porn (which is the real goal), but they have enough allies who are willing to tolerate it to make a majority (or near-majority).
Which enables big business to get everything else that they want.
They make up a tiny tiny tiny portion of the human population and whatever nation state they claim to originate from
spends time thinking of children having fun learning BSD
If I were a kid, I would reject those attempts to age-gate restrict me. I actually wonder if that age-spying is in violation of free speech. Does free speech not hold valid for younger people? They are getting restricted here. I don't see how that is fair to them.