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Is Skiff trustworthy?
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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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Skiff licensed all of it's apps it at CC-BY-NC-4, why not change it for GPL 3.0 to make it a real free and open source software that respects user's freedom and mandates the fork to be free and open source. There's a difference between free software, open source and source available!
I presume the reason they didn't use GPL3 is because they wanted the attribution and non-commercial clauses offered by CC-BY-NC.
Not suggesting that they should not prefer to drop those clauses in favour of a copyleft free software licence. but you asked "why not" and losing those clauses is clearly an obvious candidate for why they might not want to.
A software using CC-BY-NC-4 is not a good option, as it was made for media. If skiff markets itself as open source, it should respect the guidelines of opensource( it's open source(https://opensource.org/osd/), you can read the 6th rule. It says the software should not be limited for commercial use.)
I agree, I'm just answering the why question. Free software licenses don't have non-commercial clauses and they want an NC clause.