Searching for #OffGrid secure communications, I was looking at #Reticulum. Very impressive for #MeshNetwork across arbitrary radios or other channels!
The spirit behind the project is refreshing and I am largely aligned with, which leads directly to the license... it is not #FOSS with restricted use clauses (no hurting humans and #NoAI )
It has me reconsidering FOSS licensing; which is already largely ignored and difficult to enforce.
Maybe declaring your unenforceable wishes is not so bad?
@vagrantc it is a common misconception about free/libre software licenses that they are "unenforceable".
It may look like so if you solely look at the amount of _jurisprudence_ about them, but by all means 90+% of known licensing problems are precisely solved without the costly need for legal action/procedure/etc.
Often, naming and shaming and the threat of a procedure likely to be won (by licensor) are more than enough to get actors to comply, esp. when compliance is so cheap. (1/ read the license -again? 2/ publish the code 3/ don't do it again)
#freelibre licenses are more effective _because_ they are social contracts avoiding courts.
Many code hosting platforms are getting denial-of-service attacks by bots scraping up to feed it into license-washing machines...
Android platforms are mostly built out of free software, but getting complete and corresponding source code is non-trivial, if not sisyphean... which is probably the vast majority of free software based devices out there.
So, no, I do not thing naming and shaming really is working to get people their rightly deserved software freedoms.
We have won by loosing.
@vagrantc android(tm) has been designed as a trap/prison from the beginning. this has many other aspects than just licensing (unacceptable specifications for partitioning/boot/etc, master/slave architecture w/ baseband, proprietary hw,, locking-down of services, and i forget a lot)
(android has 99 problems, and software licensing aint one?)
for the ocean-drying halucination engines feeding on people's work, that's alas a wider problem than software alone. no license or contract has changed anything abt it in any sector that i know of.
we preserve a bubble of freedom where social consensus drives autonomous co-organisation. i don't call that 'losing" 🥰
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