DEFCON 201Jun 24
Fedora Project

It's true that open source is made up of community members coming together to make software solutions in a collaborative and open way.

It is also true that open source is defined by a bunch of licenses.

The licenses may not be the fun part, but being organized about what parts of your project are under which license is important for all the rest of it to work!

Thanks to the @fsfe we have an easier way to manage that. :)

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/beginners-guide-for-open-source-developers-for-software-licensing-with-fsfe-reuse/

#FSFE #OpenSource #Linux #Fedora

Making sense of software licensing with FSFE REUSE: A beginner's guide for open source developers - Fedora Magazine

Learn how the REUSE specification from FSFE helps bring clarity to open source licensing. This article covers real-world examples, and tips to make your project REUSE compliant.

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@fedora @fsfe Can the FSFE help handling the current licensing mess in Mastodon?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/35114

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #35114

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...

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