#FOSSY25 licensing panel: I ask:“Why are your corporate clients refusing to give complete, corresponding source&just lie re:‘how hard it is to give us complete,corresponding source’? Budgets are moral documents & no CCS is merely a decision to defund #copyleft compliance?”
Kate Downing's disingenuous answer: compliance is too hard & only reason for noncompliance is confusion. Kate's good at capitalist rhetoric,but that's all it is. #Vizio alone to proves her wrong. https://sfc.ngo/vizio
#FOSSY

#FOSSY25 licensing panel: I ask:“Why are your corporate clients refusing to give complete, corresponding source&just lie re:‘how hard it is to give us complete,corresponding source’? Budgets are moral documents & no CCS is merely a decision to defund #copyleft compliance?”
Kate Downing's disingenuous answer: compliance is too hard & only reason for noncompliance is confusion. Kate's good at capitalist rhetoric,but that's all it is. #Vizio alone to proves her wrong. https://sfc.ngo/vizio
#FOSSY

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

#followfriday #followfridays

IMO these should ALWAYS be included and followed:

@FediTips
@FediFollows

Physical creations:

@operationpuppet - #puppet #creator, #owncaster , #peertuber
@potterybyosa - #beautiful #pottery

Digital creations:

@operationpuppet - #developer, #artist, #copyLEFT #advocate
@_elena - #filmmaker, #blogger, #selfhoster
@monospace - #Owncaster, #DevOps #trainer

#followfriday #followfridays

IMO these should ALWAYS be included and followed:

@FediTips
@FediFollows

Physical creations:

@operationpuppet - #puppet #creator, #owncaster , #peertuber
@potterybyosa - #beautiful #pottery

Digital creations:

@operationpuppet - #developer, #artist, #copyLEFT #advocate
@_elena - #filmmaker, #blogger, #selfhoster
@monospace - #Owncaster, #DevOps #trainer

An interesting thread from #copyleft-next mailing list this week:

A thread about improving readability of defined terms…
https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q3/000027.html
… has inspired some discussion about broader strategic approach to drafting a #copyleft license in 2025…
https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q3/000032.html
https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q3/000033.html

@bkuhn has coined the term “specious argument vector” … but who knows if it'll catch on?

An interesting thread from #copyleft-next mailing list this week:

A thread about improving readability of defined terms…
https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q3/000027.html
… has inspired some discussion about broader strategic approach to drafting a #copyleft license in 2025…
https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q3/000032.html
https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q3/000033.html

@bkuhn has coined the term “specious argument vector” … but who knows if it'll catch on?

Today, we ( @bkuhn & @richardfontana) excitedly announce that we have restarted, revitalized, and relaunched copyleft-next!

Today, #GPLv3 turns exactly 18 years old. This month, #GPLv2 turned 34 years old. These are both great licenses and we love them. Nevertheless, at least once in a generation, #FOSS needs a new approach to strong #copyleft.

Read more in this thread about the relaunch of the copyleft-next project … ( or read more on the post here: https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q2/000000.html )

Today, we ( @bkuhn & @richardfontana) excitedly announce that we have restarted, revitalized, and relaunched copyleft-next!

Today, #GPLv3 turns exactly 18 years old. This month, #GPLv2 turned 34 years old. These are both great licenses and we love them. Nevertheless, at least once in a generation, #FOSS needs a new approach to strong #copyleft.

Read more in this thread about the relaunch of the copyleft-next project … ( or read more on the post here: https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q2/000000.html )

Fortunately some developers stepped up to fork the Simple apps under the name Fossify;

https://www.fossify.org/apps/

So we can still have that simple, pleasant app experience we know and love, with regular updates via F-Droid or our app manager of choice.

This is a textbook example of how Free Code licenses, which enshrine the software freedoms of the people who use software, can protect us from enshittification.

(3/3)

#SoftwareFreedom#CopyLeft#FreeCode

Ils sont coincés en haut d'une tour. En bas, une armée de gobelin prêts à en découdre. Les coups du bélier dans la porte font trembler l'édifice.
Leur seul espoir? Lancer des boules de feu. Ils ont même le parchemin du sort. Sauf qu'il en faudrait une myriade et qu'ils n'ont qu'un seul exemplaire.
Et il est protégé contre la copie.

Une petite #histoire sur les conséquences du #copyright en #fantasy. Ah, si ce sort avait été #copyleft ...

https://www.atramenta.net/lire/la-derniere-copie/23453