I always license my personal projects as free for whoever wants to use it free and wants to contribute back. It’s never free for commercial entities though because screw them profiting off of my free labour.
If you license your software in a way that has exceptions for certain groups, that license is not a libre software license. If I’m reading this correctly, you just have proprietary software. Corporations cannot be treated differently than individuals, it violates the GPLv3 and other free software licenses recognized by the FSF. Also shame on you for saying “free labour.” Creating free software is not tied to “getting free labour,” your labour was not gratis.
Doesn’t mean I don’t believe all software should be free, but in how society today is I wouldn’t be able to pay for the means to sustain myself and those close to me.
And then:
Or is there some nuance that could be applied if I responded with both wanting all software up be FOSS, but also that I need to have the means to support those around me.
If the only way to obtain a good standard of living is to restrict people’s freedom and hoard software, than the society itself is broken and unsustainable. But of course, your use of “society” is a way (intentionally or not) to deflect from the ongoing robbery of computer science leadered by the most parastic and compulsive hoarders and control freaks in your country.
This isn’t the “oh so mature” gotcha moment. Nor is the “nuance” you suppose meaningful. James Gosling (the java inventor and one of the principal engineers at Amazon) makes the same tired cliché “argument.”. A mega millionaire gives the same “feed my kids” that you do.
Yes, you are lost. You’ve admitted to creating nonfree software and parrot talking points used to derail the discussion to your own emotions (which are also by and large a product of nonfree anti-sharing culture being the default).
The Taliban formed after the fall of the Soviet Union post soviet-afgan war when the communist government collapsed after the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
The US spent decades in Afghanistan (even during the severe weakening of the Taliban in 2001) only to have it result in full Taliban control of the country in 2021. (20 fucking years)
The Soviets couldn’t “lose” to a group that hadn’t coherently formed yet, unless you count the Afghan mujahideen as the Taliban which is very historically disingenuous in the same war that had heavy foreign intervention from all sides of the geopolitical sphere.
So no: not “fairness.”