IF your position is "We have to wait until the legal landscape has settled down so we know precisely how our movement has been fucked, and how we should respond."
Then you have decided to wait until big tech has shaped the legal landscape to it's liking, to advantage itself. #FLOSS #FSF #FSFE #SFConservancy
Una pena no poder utilizar #Claude Code para que te escriba el código de #Direct3D porque en #Microsoft no son tontos y no han querido dar acceso para entrenar #LLMs con el código de su software [1]. Pero para fusilar código #copyleft no hay problema, ¿eh?
[1] Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was now, itself, a proprietary system, and antithetical to FOSS. FOSS communities learned that it was a mistake to allow a for-profit, proprietary software company to become the dominant FOSS collaborative development site. SourceForge slowly collapsed after the DotCom crash, and today, SourceForge still refuses to solve these problems0. We learned a valuable lesson that was a bit too easy to forget — especially when corporate involvement manipulates FOSS communities to its own ends. We now must learn the SourceForge lesson again with Microsoft's GitHub.
As we write this, everyone is wondering what will happen with TikTok in the next 48 hours. Social media as a phenomenon was designed to manufacture drama to sell advertising, and in this moment, the meta-drama is bigger than the in-App drama.The danger of pervasive software is clear: powerful entities — be they governments or for-profit corporations — should not control the online narrative and remain unregulated in their use of personal data generated by these systems. However, the approach taken by Congress and upheld by SCOTUS remains fundamentally flawed. When there is power imbalance between a software systems' users and its owners, the answer is never “pick a different owner”.
Good news, everyone! There's now a path for enforcing the GPL even if you're not the explicit copyright holder!
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install/
The below quote is from an email I received, not in the press release above, but is extremely good news:
>This successful lawsuit confirms that anyone can enforce their copyleft rights; copyright holders don’t shoulder the burden alone! Until now, the promise of copyleft has been empty for many people. I have dedicated myself to changing that because users deserve the right to modify and reinstall the software on their devices. Manufacturers are powerful, and when they violate copyleft, most users have little recourse and limited options. **But this case opens the doors for everyone** to pursue the rights copyleft promises — through their own efforts. **We are on the cusp of a future where people can freely modify and adapt their devices to do what they want, either by themselves, or with the help of a friend or contractor**. Your donations keep this trajectory going. I hope that excites you as much as it excites me!
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) today announces the conclusion of a lawsuit that we funded and supported in Germany. (As is typical with German cases, SFC was unable to give public updates during the case.) The defendant, Berlin-based AVM, ultimately delivered the necessary information to reinstall modified software on their device. Delivery of this information resolved the lawsuit. The plaintiff was Sebastian Steck, who received a grant from SFC to pursue this work. Steck purchased an AVM router in May 2021 and quickly found that the source code candidate which AVM sent him could not be compiled and reinstalled onto his router. AVM, the largest home router manufacturer in Germany, refused to correct its source code candidate. Steck sued AVM in a Berlin court in July 2023.
Un projecte que m'encanta escribint sobre un altre projecte que m'encanta. M'encanta. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/
Today, we at SFC, along with our OpenWrt member project, announce the production release of the OpenWrt One. This is the first wireless Internet router designed and built with your software freedom and right to repair in mind. The OpenWrt One will never be locked down and is forever unbrickable. This device services your needs as its owner and user. Everyone deserves control of their computing. The OpenWrt One takes a great first step toward bringing software rights to your home: you can control your own network with the software of your choice, and ensure your right to change, modify, and repair it as you like.
As I rely on #OpenSource so much for so many things I do, this #GivingTuesday I am supporting:
@GIMP (#GIMP)
@gnome (#GNOME)
@keepassxc (#KeePassXC)
@libreoffice (#LibreOffice)(#OpenSourceInitiative)
@conservancy (#SFConservancy)
@thunderbird (#Thunderbird)
@UbuntuWeeklyNews (#Ubuntu)
trashHeap 
Hacker 
aspragg
CodeWeavers
free ideas
Preston Maness ☭
Ilario
Patrick Masson
Joshua