Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.

I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), and github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.

@yaxu ehhhh I'm going to continue posting public domain stuff there and not care who does what with it. If they wanna train AI on it, I don't care. Not gonna cut off my nose to spite the hell mouth gnawing at me.
@spiralganglion I find this a bit strange.. Why not move to a platform that isn't associated with extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE, Epstein, genocide etc?

@yaxu I was responding to an earlier version of the post that only talked about the OSS angle. I'm increasingly convinced that copyright should be abolished, many more things should be public domain, and thus I don't care if they don't respect my choice of license.

The bit of your original post that I didn't respond to, that does resonate with me, is the consideration of other collaborators who would refuse to work with GitHub. That's legit, and I'll move for that. Just don't know where yet.

@spiralganglion Ah sorry for editing it from under you! I wanted to clarify that it's not just about licenses.

I think the point of GPL though is that copyright won't be abolished, so you have to create a viral utopia on top of it where once you buy into it, copyright and copy protection no longer exists - everything is for everyone.
LLMs may have broken this Utopia through IP washing, but that doesn't mean we can't continue to service this Utopia for ourselves.

@yaxu I don't like the limitations that GPL puts on my use. It's seemingly the most effective anti-corporate-abuse license, but I want something that has both "do whatever you, a person making cool stuff for fun, want to" but also "stab the eyes of the giants, grind their bones, and grow flowers where they once stood"
@spiralganglion AGPL or EUPL may fit those constraints. There’s also various niche (and not fully open to all) licenses like Polyform Noncommercial (https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/).
PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 – Polyform Project

@jryans bookmarking — gracias!