Show threadHoldMyTypeMar 9
@laedit I just wrote a tool to automate it and queries for other API params as well
https://sr.ht/~carnotweat/srht/
#sourcehut #agplv3 #rust
Show threadBenMar 7
This is also the first thing I’ve released under the #AGPLv3. Every other #foss project of mine has been MIT or BSD licensed, but the older I get, and the worse the tech industry becomes, the more I think Stallman was right all along.
Show threadGiacomo TesioMar 3
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non-FOSS source-available licenses, and who uses them and why
You seems only interested in licenses designed to protect corporate interests. They exist to... protect some corporate interests.

Of those you listed, #SSPL was rejected by #OSI for a single reasons: #Amazon money as a premium sponsor, but was otherwise just a slightly tweaked #AGPLv3.

Anyway, if you only care about #opensource (thus commercial) stuff, you basically listed all relevan ones.

Yet not all "non #FOSS" licenses exist to please corporate greed.

Many other licenses don't give a shit about business or "susteinability" but try a better balance between #freedom and other political values.

A well known example is #HESSLA
https://web.archive.org/web/20120204033625/http://www.hacktivismo.com/about/hessla.php

Another less known example of a license used by #hacktivists is the #HackingLicense: https://monitora-pa.it/LICENSE.txt

I use this license in all my side projects: feel free to ask me anything.

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Show threadBradley M. KühnJan 31

@mkljczk

We verified they violated #AGPLv3. I coordinated with #Mastodon folks on an enforcement action to gain compliance.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-group-agplv3/

It was not a test version. It was the site. The public could sign up for accounts and many members of the general public signed up for accounts and received accounts.

The violation continued for a number of months thereafter.

I have all the receipts.

Cc:
@jzb @bortzmeyer

Trump's Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon)

An analysis: Trump's Group has 30 days to remedy the violation, or their rights in the software are permanently terminatedIn 2002, we used phrases like “Web 2.0” and “AJAX” to describe the revolution that was happening in web technology for average consumers. This was just before names like Twitter and Facebook became famous worldwide. Web 2.0 was the groundwork infrastructure of the “social media” to come.

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Show threadBradley M. KühnJan 31

@bortzmeyer overheard at #FOSDEM
> “There is a guy who does a lot of work to help the fediverse and to push people toward it. His name is Donald Trump.”

This statement contains multitudes b/c #TruthSocial is a fork of #Mastodon. Initially, $DJT violated the #AGPLv3, but AFAIK they now comply with the license. I examined the fork & they primary code they added was an advertising platform. Obviously it doesn't have federation turned on.

Cc: @jzb

#GPL #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26 #copyleft #AGPL

Kevin Karhan Jan 24

All the people decrying #Wayland and #SystemD are the same #Stallmanist [#GNU "#AGPLv3-only!" extremist] folks that refused to do it better themselves but instead choose to enshittify and toxify the #FLOSS community.

  • THIS is so fecking true!

#meta #community #OpenSource #RadeBait #Venting #Commentary #Sarcasm #politricks

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (@[email protected])

EDIT: A lot of replies are fixating on systemd and Wayland. I used these as framing devices because the discussion around them always pushes in this direction but they aren’t to only examples. They’re not even particularly unusual in the F/OSS ecosystem, just the ones that make the most noise because they’re a change. To all of the replies who say ‘the same is true of…’, I reply ‘yes, it is, that’s my point’. A lot of the dialog around systemd and Wayland ends up with someone saying at least one of the following: - You don’t get to decide what devs work on. - You are free to do something else if you don’t like it. And both of these are true. Indeed, the second is a core idea of Free Software. Free Software is about empowering users so that they are *not* beholden to the decisions that their software vendor made and are able to make different choices. But most people (even most programmers) can’t decide they don’t want to use Wayland or systemd and write something different. These components are large monolithic entities. Even systemd, which is made of a bunch of coopretating daemons, has so much tight coupling between them that you can’t replace one of them without reimplementing 90% of its functionality. And each of these projects is too complex for a single person to create a replacement for unless they treat it as a full-time job. To me, that really highlights the failure of the Free Software movement. It obsessed over licenses that prevent downstream developers from taking away rights (and making it harder for end users to exercise them) while never thinking about how to design software so that exercising these rights was easy and natural. In a real Free Software system, option 2 should be so easy that a *large* fraction of users do it. Systems should be easy to shape around users’ requirements and preferences.

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JTIDec 22

Today's next interesting iteration in #LLM shenanigans:
Below #FOSS and #claudecode extension project is licensed as #AGPLv3 which, given what it claims to be, appears more than reasonable to me. It also has a commercial license available. So nothing new here.
However, here's the fun part from the ReadMe: "No Closed-Source Usage: You cannot use this software in proprietary/closed-source projects without open-sourcing your entire project under AGPL-3.0."

Do we now argue that this is more of an #IDE or more of your #bison/flex style code generator, just without the common generator exception.

In a more extended round of arguments:

  • There is a now a growing FOSS scene around shared context (skills, agents, prompts, ...) components for your least distrusted coding LLM.
  • They are combined with the human instruction ("derivative work" has entered the chat) and turned into code by the LLM.
  • The FOSS components partially contain code snippets as examples of what to generate. At times similar but not identical or clearly derived variations of them end up in the output.
  • The Nov25 case around German #GEMA vs #OpenAI on song texts comes to mind here too.
  • Also, I'd argue that this is likely to have substantial future impact and probably will end up being enforced in a few cases here or there.

Now what do we make of this? I would err more towards a) it's enforceable b) 🍿
#jurabubble for the German opinions
#norge for the package authors jurisdiction

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#proxmox #datacenter #CodigoAberto #SoftwareLivre #agplv3

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Kevin Karhan Nov 25
@icedquinn or just go to #0BSD over #AGPLv3 / #GPLv3 / whatever else Stallman is smoking rn.
Show threadBradley M. KühnNov 18

Thanks those who shared this satire:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

IMO, only paragraph missing was:

> “3 hours/week, my company lets me upstream code to their favorite MIT-licensed #FOSS project! That counts. Of course, in exchange, I have to post on y-combinator how bad #copyleft is & file a #GitHub ticket telling some #AGPLv3'd project to change licenses. Oh, & all the best patches with new features stay on our internal branch…but *I* fixed all typos & misspellings upstream!”

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