Tired of corps stealing your code ?

I created NCRO v1.0 license to let devs show code safely. People can view it locally, but corps are blocked !

Why use it :
* strictly local : no public forks !
* no corps : bans commercial use
* anti-cloud : no api or saas wrapping
* absolute ownership : we own your prs
* absurdity clause : corps must agree to any crazy terms you set !

https://github.com/metw0/ncro-license

#opensource #programming #github #developer #coding #license #licensing #software

Theater District bar gets second three-day suspension for having another table of underage drinkers
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/theater-district-bar-gets-second-three-day-suspension-having-another

#Boston #licensing

At least some judge came to their senses and ruled that piracy doesn't entitle the IP holders/licensees to damages equal of the full price of the including subscription.

• Here's the original decision text…

Obviously that doesn't make pirate decryption legal, it merely takes into account that those subscribing to card sharing ain't necessarily able to pay the regular subscription so, the damage claims are on their own made-up bogus if the Pay-TV provider can't evidence them!

#NotLegalAdvice #CopyrightMafia #DamageClaims #Licensing #PayTV #subscription #CardSharing #PirateDecryption #Piracy #Justice #Law #DEjur #Germany

Built the dependency list the lazy way. One install at a time, each one chosen to get the thing running.

Then a patent attorney read it out loud.

GPL v3 has a retaliation clause. Assert a patent against someone using the same covered code, and your own license terminates. Plaintiff one day, infringer the next.

Three sections do this together. I walked them.

https://praveenlavu.com/dispatch/gpl-v3-patent-retaliation-trap

#opensource #licensing #patents #ip #aiengineering

CBS Signs Licensing Deal With ‘Peanuts’ People To Duck Legal Issues From Colbert’s Last Show

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/cbs-signs-licensing-deal-with-peanuts-people-to-duck-legal-issues-from-colberts-last-show/

Why did Microsoft publish their Copilot Cowork cost estimator tool as an Excel workbook? Didn't the team have enough Copilot Credits to build an online tool with Cowork?

Since I still had free Frontier credits for Opus 4.8 in Cowork, I decided to build a better version: https://cowork.licensing.guide

#Microsoft365 #Copilot #Cowork #CopilotCowork #licensing

Wow...PHP has managed to get all the stakeholders in the old PHP and Zend licenses to sign off on consolidating everything under the 3-term BSD license.

https://www.php.net/license/
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update
https://ben.ramsey.dev/blog/2026/05/the-php-license-simplified

Both were functionally BSD-3 plus trademark and update clauses, with PHP and Zend specifically mentioned instead of just "the copyright holder." So they updated the licenses to remove the extra clauses, leaving them functionally equivalent to BSD-3-clause, and then reworded the remaining clauses to make the new versions literally the BSD-3-clause license.

So the codebase is no longer split between two licenses, OSI agrees that it's definitely open source, and it's compatible to use in GPL-licensed projects.

#PHP #FLOSS #licensing