🏅 Top Open Source licenses in 2025
https://opensource.org/blog/top-open-source-licenses-in-2025
My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the/
#HackerNews #insulinpump #Linux #GPL #open-source #medicaldevices
I admit I was lazy and had the stochastic parrot (aka #Copilot) generate me some boilerplate code so I could start tinkering without having to wade through a bunch of dusty tutorials and mouldy SO posts first.
But assuming this tinkering turns into an actual project, what would be an appropriate license? I'm thinking GPL3, so any prior code that might have potentially been license-washed by the parrot is copy-lefted at least as strongly as before?
Opinions?
😲 👀 … Judge Leal in #SFC's landmark impact litigation against #Vizio (regarding their violations of #GPLv2 & #LGPLv2_1) is leaning toward partially granting our motion for summary adjudication.
Such motions are difficult to win, so this is amazing.
Her decision is tentative; join the hearing today (details in linked post) to hear the oral arguments in real time.
I'll live updates of the hearing in this thread.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/
#SFC lawyers argue correctly that the Judge got it right in the tentative ruling: the contract we accepted when we exercised the new offer when #Vizio updated their offer during the case.
#Vizio's lawyer dubiously claims that because we said the offer was invalid when the case *started* means we can never test the offer for source later when they fixed it during the case.
Effectively, Vizio is effectively saying if you're in a #GPL lawsuit, you lose your right to even ask for source at all!!!
Good catch @aral! #Google does like free and open source, but only if they can exploit it.
Quote: "Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology"
– @fosdem
Really? Then Google should be open to #AGPL licences—which they notoriously hate: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy
Worrying if Google can influence/censor #FOSDEM as a sponsor, in the same way advertisers do for journals
A window into how hectic & 14-hour-day-inducing it is to work for a tiny charity like #SFC:
Right now, I'm (a) listening to live deposition of #Vizio's expert witness in our landmark impact litigation regarding #GPL, (b) generating a fundraising email to ask our donors to please renew as #SoftwareFreedom #Conservancy sustainers <https://sfconservancy.org/sustainers/>, & (c) desperately copying files to my new laptop as my current one is failing in real time.
All happening in real time. Welcome to my world.
The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models
https://shujisado.org/2025/11/27/gpl-propagates-to-ai-models-trained-on-gpl-code/
#HackerNews #GPL #Propagation #AI #Models #OpenSource #Licensing #TechEthics #AIResearch
🫧 socialcoding..
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#License nerds: Is it compatible with #GPL v3 to ask soft-phone users to accept "general terms" and a "privacy policy" if all you want is to use a THIRD PARTY account? I think this is a violation. 🤔
Looking at you @linphone1 …
#License nerds: Is it compatible with #GPL v3 to ask soft-phone users to accept "general terms" and a "privacy policy" if all you want is to use a THIRD PARTY account? I think this is a violation. 🤔
Looking at you @linphone1 …
happyborg
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Still, #LLM are voiding the #GPL (and #AGPL) reciprocity.
That's why years ago I wrote the #HackingLicense https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
It was designed with automated corporate #exploitation of #FreeSoftware in mind: it's goal is to balance #freedom and #communion, and it share with those that accept it much more than permissions, while being a stromger #copyleft and an explicit shrink-wrap contract.
Unfortunately, it's not compatible with GPL, because GPL is much weaker.
The fundamental issue of Free Software, the one that let people create the #OpenSource narrative and permessive licenses to exploit programmer ideals and #freelabor, was that #RMS, as an American grown up during #ColdWar, was too fond of the freedom-vs-communism propaganda to understand how lack of rules means the rule of the rich.
The problem is not commercial use of free software but commercial exploitation of free labour, as @doctormo@floss.social correctly stated.
The Hacking License does not prohibit commercial use, but requires recipient to share their own #copyright with the users of any derivative or dependant work they create as a contractual binding.
It's modelled after the research of #ElinorOstrom about Commons governance and the #Hacker ethics based on the value of #curiosity.
Still, #LLM are voiding the #GPL (and #AGPL) reciprocity.
That's why years ago I wrote the #HackingLicense https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
It was designed with automated corporate #exploitation of #FreeSoftware in mind: it's goal is to balance #freedom and #communion, and it share with those that accept it much more than permissions, while being a stromger #copyleft and an explicit shrink-wrap contract.
Unfortunately, it's not compatible with GPL, because GPL is much weaker.
The fundamental issue of Free Software, the one that let people create the #OpenSource narrative and permessive licenses to exploit programmer ideals and #freelabor, was that #RMS, as an American grown up during #ColdWar, was too fond of the freedom-vs-communism propaganda to understand how lack of rules means the rule of the rich.
The problem is not commercial use of free software but commercial exploitation of free labour, as @doctormo@floss.social correctly stated.
The Hacking License does not prohibit commercial use, but requires recipient to share their own #copyright with the users of any derivative or dependant work they create as a contractual binding.
It's modelled after the research of #ElinorOstrom about Commons governance and the #Hacker ethics based on the value of #curiosity.
People are slowly realizing that Android only weaponized open source licenses but was always meant to be a captive platform, like people are slowly realizing that VS Code has open source code but is a captive platform.
Open source licences are not enough. They’re regularly weaponized as a tech enthusiast trap.
@thibaultamartin licenses might not be enough, but at least one could use a stronger copyleft license like #GPL, which protects against more types of #enshittification than weaker permissive licenses. Which is why those #bigtech companies are scared to use them.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Generally speaking, #copyleft codebases interact best with small-to-medium business ventures rather than advancing the interests of megacorps.
#Mastodon is an obvious example — which has a growing ecosystem of small businesses (like @mastohost) & nonprofit entities working in collaboration.
We see similar in the #GPL'd #Drupal community.
When megacorps get involved with copylefted projects, it's usually to exploit rather than engage — hence the widespread #GPLv2 violations on #Linux.
#AGPLv3
Generally speaking, #copyleft codebases interact best with small-to-medium business ventures rather than advancing the interests of megacorps.
#Mastodon is an obvious example — which has a growing ecosystem of small businesses (like @mastohost) & nonprofit entities working in collaboration.
We see similar in the #GPL'd #Drupal community.
When megacorps get involved with copylefted projects, it's usually to exploit rather than engage — hence the widespread #GPLv2 violations on #Linux.
#AGPLv3
Nicolas Fressengeas
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Mettre en place un #PlanDeGestionDeLogiciel ( #GPL) pour favoriser la réutilisation et la durabilité de votre logiciel, script ou programme : oui 👍 ! Mais #CommentFaire ?
Le blog #ScienceOuverte vous aide :
➡️ https://openscience.pasteur.fr/2025/09/11/comment-mettre-en-place-un-plan-de-gestion-des-logiciels/
Mettre en place un #PlanDeGestionDeLogiciel ( #GPL) pour favoriser la réutilisation et la durabilité de votre logiciel, script ou programme : oui 👍 ! Mais #CommentFaire ?
Le blog #ScienceOuverte vous aide :
➡️ https://openscience.pasteur.fr/2025/09/11/comment-mettre-en-place-un-plan-de-gestion-des-logiciels/
der.hans
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brown box of the OpenWRT one router.
Old router, not used anymore next to the powerplug
Blue router on top of a sound box and next to a printer
Blue router in a box
brown box of the OpenWRT one router.
Old router, not used anymore next to the powerplug
Blue router on top of a sound box and next to a printer
Blue router in a box
Stefano Marinelli
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I just released ProxLB 1.1.7 for Proxmox - bringing in DRS alike VM resource based balancing to your Proxmox cluster!
What is ProxLB?
The Prox Load Balancer (ProxLB) helps you to rebalance your Container and VM workloads across your nodes in your Proxmox cluster based on the resource usage of nodes (e.g., CPU, memory, local disk).
Changelog:
* Add conntrack state aware migrations of VMs. (Closes: 305)
* Add graceful shutdown for SIGINT command. (Closes: 304)
* Fix crash when validating absent migration job ids. (Closes: 308)
* Fix guest object names are not being evaluated in debug log. (Closes: 310)
* Note: Have a great Dutch Proxmox Day 2025!
ProxLB is fully #opensource and under #GPL (#GPLv3).
Changelog: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.7
Project: https://proxlb.de
#ProxLB #Proxmox #Virtualization #Loadbalancer #OpenSource #Python #Coding #DutchProxmoxDay #DutchProxmoxDay2025 #PVE #Proxcon #Proxday #KVM
