In this discussion, we have directly jumped to the “how” and the “what”, rather than talking about the “why”
In context of some of my thoughts in this post, to me it is clear that the “why” for a FOSS community has to be around software rights.
In my personal view, for private individuals / companies, it is the choice of the creator to choose how they want to release their code. But in the case of public funded institutions where the code belongs to “the people”, there is no doubt that it should be free software.
Every citizen should have the right to study the code that runs the machines that run public institutions. This is an idealistic policy stand that is worth fighting for.