AGPL is exactly the spirit of open source. The license used by bear violates freedom 0. AGPL ensures that freedom 1, 2 and 3 are allowed even in hosted services scenarios.

Freedom 0 the freedom to use the work

Freedom 1 the freedom to study the work

Freedom 2 the freedom to copy and share the work with others

Freedom 3 the freedom to modify the work, and the freedom to distribute modified and therefore derivative works

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levkk 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Gotta love these are zero-indexed. Written by an engineer for engineers.

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Skunkleton 6 days ago | parent [-]

Its weirdly incorrect to zero index stuff like this. The zero index refers to the start of the first thing, which is not what numbered lists are supposed to indicate.

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F3nd0 6 days ago | parent [-]

If I recall correctly, there were originally three freedoms, but then a fourth one was thought of and put at the front to give it prominence, numbering it as zero as not to disturb the original numbering.

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fkyoureadthedoc 5 days ago | parent [-]

Unless you think they'd add a "Freedom -1" in the event that they add a 5th even more important freedom, then this is clearly just selected because 0 indexed lists are cute to programmers

	▲	F3nd0 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think it’s most likely a combination of both: Freedom 0 was later added in the first place, and newly numbering the first place with 0 could likely only have been thought of by a programmer.

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F3nd0 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That is not the spirit of open source, but rather the spirit of free software. The spirit of open source is to effectively have freedom without talking about it.