AI Agents Restore Free Software Relevance
The article argues AI coding agents are poised to make free software—Richard Stallman's 1980-era four freedoms—practically relevant again by enabling users to read, modify, and customize codebases on their behalf. It summarizes the 1998 "open source" rebrand, explains how SaaS and permissive licenses sidestepped GPL copyleft, and notes AGPL and license changes at companies like MongoDB, Redis, and HashiCorp.
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- Read OriginalAI Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Againgjlondon.com
