Is open source licensing meaningful anymore, or are we just left with public domain?
What are the legal distinctions between GPL, Apache, and MIT when AI companies and LLMs ignore standard copyright boundaries? There's no license text that will stop the automated, industrial-scale extraction machine.
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Как один зажёванный лист в принтере Xerox привел к созданию GNU Linux и всей философии Open Source
Принято считать, что современный IT-мир построили Гейтс, Джобс или Торвальдс. Но без одного бородатого хакера из MIT, который в 80-х вусмерть разругался с принтером Xerox, у нас бы не было ни Linux, ни Android, ни концепции Open Source в её нынешнем виде. Ричард Столлман — создатель проекта GNU и вирусной лицензии GPL, самый радикальный, неудобный и бескомпромиссный философ от мира IT. Долгие годы индустрия считала его эксцентричным параноиком, который принципиально не пользуется смартфонами и шарахается от проприетарного софта. Но в эпоху тотальной корпоративной слежки и коммерциализации каждого байта его идеи внезапно обрели новый, пугающе актуальный смысл. Вспоминаем историю человека, который в одиночку решил сделать программное обеспечение свободным — и у него почти получилось.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1041420/
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Most open source software is also free software. In everyday conversations people use the two terms interchangeably and so will I in this post.One of the most popular free software licenses is the GNU GPL. It is used by the Linux kernel, GNOME, KDE (LGPL) and countless other big and small projects. It’s a license that, in the past 37 years, has played an important role in shaping the open source landscape. The GPL was created to block many different vectors of abuse associated with software dist
Yeah, so... I'm gonna go ahead and link to a AI dude writing on Substack (the nazi bar) complete with slop "art" header, because although I am a hardliner, I am not a puritan nor a fanatic.
Dude has employed robot minions to discover myriad bugs. This is good, actually.
However, $ = bug finding, more $$$ = finding more bugs.
Do you see why this makes the GPL or something like it imperative? Do you see? DO YOU SEE?
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/finding-miscompiles-for-fun-not-profit
In the mean time, the FSF made a clear statement on the Onlyoffice – EuroOffice case: https://u.fsf.org/4b2
Indeed, one can not add arbitrary terms to the (A)GPL and claim that ones software is under that license. If an added term represents a "further restriction", anyone is allowed to remove that restriction.
(A)GPL licenses are made to preserve software freedom, not for actors to use them for open washing, claiming to be open yource while trying to take a way freedoms from users at the same time.
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#California Wants To Exclude #Linux and Other #OpenSource Systems From New #AgeChecks
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If you are interested in #audiobooks like me (I love listening to them when I'm on a long walk/hike) you might want to have a look at Supertonic for #Android It's based on the #Supertonic engine. So far, this is the best #TTS I have found on Android in terms of natural sounding voices. It can read epub files and can export to a wav file so you can create your own audiobooks :)
Good for people with #ADHD :D
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.brahmadeo.supertonic.tts/
»Also, I don't get *BSD anyhow. Who would contribute, when all of that could at some point be taken by a company that sells their products on the basis of other peoples efforts anyhow? Isn't this exactly what AT&T did to Unix? Weren't the BSD people p***ed because of it? So, now let's put a lot of effort in making #FreeBSD ready for mobile devices… so that others can take that work and sell their product as a proprietary thing in the future?« 🔥
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