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From a bit ago but just listened to this and found some parts remarkably well-articulated and helpful so wanted to share here:
Software Freedom Conservancy: Cory Doctorow and Karen Sandler discuss Right to Repair
Episode webpage: https://videos.trom.tf/w/q1AAL629GYMFtN6nCy15WE
File under "not wunderbar":
In Germany a court decided that even smaller online platforms can be held responsible for infringing content uploaded by users, if they don't have some form of screening:
https://nrwe.justiz.nrw.de/lgs/koeln/lg_koeln/j2025/14_O_343_23_Urteil_20250724.html (German)
File under "not wunderbar":
In Germany a court decided that even smaller online platforms can be held responsible for infringing content uploaded by users, if they don't have some form of screening:
https://nrwe.justiz.nrw.de/lgs/koeln/lg_koeln/j2025/14_O_343_23_Urteil_20250724.html (German)
→ Paradoxe libriste et logiciel émancipateur (par @p4bl0)
https://p4bl0.net/post/2022/11/Paradoxe-libriste-et-logiciel-emancipateur
« Dans le milieu libriste, y compris parfois très à gauche, il semble que la possibilité de compromis s'arrête souvent brutalement sur la liberté d'utilisation du logiciel, sur laquelle il serait inadmissible de vouloir poser des conditions, comme le fait pourtant le copyleft sur la liberté de partage. »
#gauche#liberté #partage#Paradoxe #libriste #logiciel #copyleft #compromis#émancipateur
😲🤬 re: what's happened to @Codeberg today
The AI ballyhoo is a real DDoS against one of the few code hosting sites that has taken a stand against slurping #FOSS code into LLM training sets — in violation of #copyleft licenses.
This is what lawless & deregulation bring us. ∃ plenty of blame to go around, but #Microsoft & #GitHub deserve the bulk of it as they trailblazed the idea that FOSS code-hosting sites are lucrative targets.
https://giveupgithub.org
#GiveUpGitHub#FreeSoftware#OpenSource
We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today. The army of AI crawlers just leveled up and hit us very badly.
The good news: We're keeping up with the additional load of new users moving to Codeberg. Welcome aboard, we're happy to have you here. After adjusting the AI crawler protections, performance significantly improved again.
😲🤬 re: what's happened to @Codeberg today
The AI ballyhoo is a real DDoS against one of the few code hosting sites that has taken a stand against slurping #FOSS code into LLM training sets — in violation of #copyleft licenses.
This is what lawless & deregulation bring us. ∃ plenty of blame to go around, but #Microsoft & #GitHub deserve the bulk of it as they trailblazed the idea that FOSS code-hosting sites are lucrative targets.
https://giveupgithub.org
#GiveUpGitHub#FreeSoftware#OpenSource
#copyleft- @next will move slowly & steadily. I must focus on the final days of the #Vizio case before trial, but I'm looking forward to my “vacation” after the Vizio trial to be work on #copyleft -next!
Watch https://sfc.ngo/vizio/ for more info on #Vizio case!
Bummer. I just learned via @jdp23 that the Cyberlicense party is already over..
#copyleft- @next will move slowly & steadily. I must focus on the final days of the #Vizio case before trial, but I'm looking forward to my “vacation” after the Vizio trial to be work on #copyleft -next!
Watch https://sfc.ngo/vizio/ for more info on #Vizio case!
> “Or try @forgejo — the code #forge that #Codeberg is based on.”
I agree completely & in #copyleft- @next project, we're using #forgejo <https://git.copyleft.org/>!
The reason I mentioned @Codeberg specifically upthread (& not other options) is (a) 500-char limit on my server & (b) Codeberg is likely the best option for someone who wants to #GiveUpGitHub <https://giveupgithub.org> quickly.
Absolutely, #ForgeFederation is the future: #Fediverse for CODE!
Cc: @forgefed
Or try @forgejo, the code #forge that #Codeberg is based on.
#Forgejo already has some #ActivityPub-based capabilities e.g. to federate stars, testing the waters for more to come. In their contrib community a whole @forgefed #ForgeFederation initiative is brewing..
> “Or try @forgejo — the code #forge that #Codeberg is based on.”
I agree completely & in #copyleft- @next project, we're using #forgejo <https://git.copyleft.org/>!
The reason I mentioned @Codeberg specifically upthread (& not other options) is (a) 500-char limit on my server & (b) Codeberg is likely the best option for someone who wants to #GiveUpGitHub <https://giveupgithub.org> quickly.
Absolutely, #ForgeFederation is the future: #Fediverse for CODE!
Cc: @forgefed
In the case of #Wikipedia, though, printed copies should always offer &/or be accompanied with electronic copies. Wikipedia should really be under copyleft and it's not.
After all, paper printout is but a rudimentary form of DRM.
I'm not saying CC-BY-SA is useless and shouldn't exist, I'm saying there is no #copyleft in the CC license group. CC even used to encourage photographers license scaled versions CC-BY-SA & keep high quality images proprietary.
Cc: @cwebber @wikipedia @dos @dpk
Wikipedia was licensed under the GFDL, and that was before CC BY-SA was available as the world's most popular copyleft license for cultural works. How to relicense with so many contributors?
So... Creative Commons, Wikimedia, and the Free Software Foundation collaborated on adding a new version of the GFDL that allowed for relicensing to CC BY-SA if it were done within a short time window to allow Wikipedia to do it
As someone who was present at the drafting of the GFDL, and someone who thinks CC-BY-SA is not actually a #copyleft license, I think Wikipedia picked the correct evil of two lessers.
GFDL was a peace treaty between RMS & Tim O'Reilly written in the form of a license.
CC-BY-SA is copyleft designed by libertarians.
True copyleft must allow reproducibility from first principles. CC-BY-SA doesn't.
If that were true, browsing the web with M-x eww would also get me into a lot of trouble I'd think
Regardless, I don't advise doing it anyway :P
Under v3, it's surely a violation,
@cwebber.
GPLv3 group is unique among #copyleft licenses in that “modify” is defined:
> ”To ‘modify’ a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in a fashion requiring copyright permission”
If you need copyright permission to add the REST API calls (which of course you do), then GPLv3§12 kicks in immediately if Chatgpt's license or ToS or TaC in any way contradict GPLv3's terms.
Bob's your uncle & you violat copyleft.
Cc: @suetanvil @jmax
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