This is the first¹ & last chance to comment on proposed Code of Conduct for copyleft-next project.

https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2026q2/000069.html

We will try our best to respond to any comments here on Fediverse, but note the email indicates the primary two ways to give comments.

¹ Well, technically the comment period has been open since April 2019, as noted in the email. But 1ˢᵗ time for comments on actual draft.

#CodeOfConduct #CoC #ContributorCovenant #copyleft #CopyleftNext #GPL #GPLv2 #GPLv3 #AGPLv3 #AGPL

Code of Conduct (based on Contributor Covenant 3.0) for copyleft-next goes into effect within a week; final comments *now* please

@liw said:
> “I'm not sure the strategy of defending licenses is viable in the long run”

I believe the #copyleft strategy needs an upgrade; the concept of copyleft reaches its 41ˢᵗ anniversary later this month.

Please watch the #copyleft-next project this year as I think (hope?) what we do will change your mind on the above.

We are radically rethinking copyleft license drafting. I believe a new approach *is* viable in the long run.

Follow @next for updates.

Cc: @richardfontana
#CopyleftNext

I was looking at #CopyleftNext 0.3.1 from 2016, and it has some very nice details that I didn't notice or have forgotten about since last I read some version of the license ... which would be in 2016 or earlier.

A friend asked me about licenses.

#copyleftnext should continue *not* to count sections from 0, in contrast with the GPL tradition. https://github.com/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/issues/64#issuecomment-3039516709 (note that the canonical repo for copyleft-next is now at https://git.copyleft.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next ) @next
License terms should start at index `0` just like GPL · Issue #64 · copyleft-next/copyleft-next

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GitHub

In this #EverythingOpen Speaker Spotlight, Bradley M. Kuhn of @conservancy asks if #FOSS licenses have jumped the shark in an era where licensing is politicised? And is #CopyLeftNext the answer?

https://2023.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/49/

Everything Open 2023 | Presentation: Did FOSS Licenses Jump the Shark?: The Next Season of Copyleft License Drafting and Promulgation

Everything Open 2023 - March 14-16 2023, Melbourne, Australia

TIL there is copyleft-next code in Linux since 2017:

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k…

/via lists.fedoraproject.org/archiv… patch which adds a copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX reference to Linux

#CopyleftNext
test_kmod.c « lib - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree