Another reason to use the GPL software license, over MIT or BSD

In short, GPL uses copyright law to protect you, as an author of software, from exploitation better than MIT or BSD software licenses do. Here we have a case of the Anthropic corporation using MIT-licensed code in one of their software products, which is of course a for-profit product. The original author of that code received no compensation, as it is not required by the license. So the author applied for a job at Anthropic, and ironically, Anthropic responded with an AI-generated rejection letter. Corporations like Anthropic seem to have an allergy to GPL-licensed code however, due to the nature of how the GPL license grants much more specific rights and restrictions, both to the authors of the code, and the companies who use it.

Of course, nowadays LLMs can ingest GPL and MIT/BSD licensed code and spit it back out in altered form, essentially letting the makers of the LLM profit from your work without compensating you, so the GPL is probably due for an “upgrade” to prevent use for AI training. Unfortunately thanks to regulatory capture, and not-so-impartial courts of law mostly ignoring copyright law nowadays, it might not even be possible to use GPL or copyright to protect authors of software anymore. Probably a whole new legal framework is required first, and I don’t think this will be happening any time soon.

#tech#software#AI#GPL#MITLicense#BSDLicense#GPLLicense#FreeSoftware#FOSS#FLOSS

Has there ever been a clinical study of why FLOSS/GNU/Linux people behave like that?

1. Person: Unrelated topic.
2. FLOSS: WELL ACTUALLY
3. Person: Not helpful.
4. FLOSS: WHY NOT? U R MEEN!

The fuck is wrong in their brains? That they think people want unhelpful "answers" and then get upset when you tell them how unhelpful they're being?

Were they not beaten enough as children/adults? Too much? Should we escalate to electric shocks and waterboarding or is there a "talking cure"?
#floss #linux

ajuvo ✔
ajuvo ✔ boosted

New on // foss.events: ChaosZeltZone by Chaostreff Chemnitz e.V. on 27-31 August 2025 in Zeltplatz Gunzenberg an der Talsperre Pöhl, #Pöhl, #Germany

Find out more on
https://foss.events/2025/08-27-chaoszeltzone-2025.html

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#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

🆓 Open Source Guitar/Ukulele Chords and Tabs 🎉

Amazing app by @marcelklehr

Chords Reader 2 🎸

• Save chords offline.

• Auto scroll, transpose.

• See any chord and it's versions.

Steps to use:

1️⃣ Search tabs, share the browser webpage to the chords reader app OR use in app search.

2️⃣ Click on chords identified (on top).

3️⃣ Click OK.

4️⃣ Select SAVE by tapping on 3 dots in corner.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.hollowbamboo.chordreader2

#opensourceguitar #guitar #chordophones #ukulele #chords #opensourcemusic #opensource #floss #fdroid #ukulele

Antanicus
alcinnz
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Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

#OpenSource#TaxTheTechGiants#DigitalCommons#EUSTF#PublicGoods#FLOSS #CyberResilience #linux #kde #fsfe #gnome#FOSS#EU

What #libre#IDE (integrated development environment for programming code) would y'all want to coalesce around using, supporting, and developing? Asking especially for coding websites and applications with #PHP, #JavaScript, #CSS, and #HTML but #Python, #Elixir, #Rust, and #Go would all be great for us @agaric too.

#FLOSS#OpenSource#FreeSoftware

New on // foss.events: ChaosZeltZone by Chaostreff Chemnitz e.V. on 27-31 August 2025 in Zeltplatz Gunzenberg an der Talsperre Pöhl, #Pöhl, #Germany

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🚀 OFE Publishes Landmark Study Calling on Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure through an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)

Our new report urges creation of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) to fix chronic underfunding of open source technologies – the backbone of Europe’s digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, and competitiveness.

🔗 Check it out: eu-stf.openforumeurope.org

🔗 Check out our summary: https://openforumeurope.org/ofe-launches-landmark-study-calling-for-an-eu-sovereign-tech-fund-to-secure-europes-digital-future/

#OpenSource#DigitalSovereignty#EU

Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

#OpenSource#TaxTheTechGiants#DigitalCommons#EUSTF#PublicGoods#FLOSS #CyberResilience #linux #kde #fsfe #gnome#FOSS#EU

Neil Brown
Neil Brown boosted

Trying #KDEItinerary for my next trip, and I am AMAZED at how actually GOOD this little thing is at laying out a whole trip.

I gotta be honest, I thought it was going to be a thing for planning-obsessed people (which it is) but it is SO USER-FRIENDLY and EASY to setup.

You all should give it a try! It's also available for #Android!

@kde#FOSS#FLOSS#LibreSoftware#KDE

Trying #KDEItinerary for my next trip, and I am AMAZED at how actually GOOD this little thing is at laying out a whole trip.

I gotta be honest, I thought it was going to be a thing for planning-obsessed people (which it is) but it is SO USER-FRIENDLY and EASY to setup.

You all should give it a try! It's also available for #Android!

@kde#FOSS#FLOSS#LibreSoftware#KDE

🏖️ Cet été, parcourez ma chaîne vidéo #PeerTube 📽️ et découvrez (ou revisionnez, ou faites connaître à vos proches 👪) toute une série de documentaires (actuellement 24) traitant des #LogicielsLibres 🐃 et #OpenSource 👨‍💻, des #CommunsNumériques 👥, des #GAFAM ☢️, de l'#HygièneNumérique 🌿, de la #ViePrivée 🛡️ et des #DonnéesPersonnelles 💾.

🔔 N'hésitez pas à vous y abonner.

🔗 https://videos.domainepublic.net/c/documentaires_logiciels_libres_et_gafam/

#️⃣ #FLOSS#Microsoft#Privacy#OpenStreetMap#OSM#Wikipédia#Linux#AaronSwartz #LinusTorvalds

der.hans
der.hans boosted

A new #DestinationLinux has hit the road!
😂❤️🐧🐧🐧
https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-427/

Secure Off-Grid Chat, Lossless Scaling on Linux, $37 Ploopy Knob,
Speech Note – speech to text app for Linux

#podcast#Linux#FLOSS#SwitchtoLinux
Thank you @SandflySecurity!
http://destinationlinux.net/sandfly

Interesting read.

"At the outset, 'open source' and 'free software' were synonyms. All code that was open was also free, and vice-versa. But over the ensuing decades, that changed, as Benjamin 'Mako' Hill explained in his 2018 Libreplanet keynote, 'How markets coopted free software’s most powerful weapon'."

#FreeSoftware#OpenSource#FLOSS#FOSS

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/14/pole-star/#gnus-not-utilitarian

Interesting read.

"At the outset, 'open source' and 'free software' were synonyms. All code that was open was also free, and vice-versa. But over the ensuing decades, that changed, as Benjamin 'Mako' Hill explained in his 2018 Libreplanet keynote, 'How markets coopted free software’s most powerful weapon'."

#FreeSoftware#OpenSource#FLOSS#FOSS

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/14/pole-star/#gnus-not-utilitarian