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

#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 …

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.

@giacomo > Still, #LLM are voiding the #GPL (and #AGPL) reciprocity.

That has to yet to be seen. No FLOSS organization has come out saying that, and it is still debated.

What is sure though is that the Hack license is a non-free software license incompatible with the #FLOSS movement.

@doctormo

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.

@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.

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

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/

Now we have one router at the @fsfe to remind people about the history of #GNU #GPL enforcement (thanks @LaF0rge 👏) and two new #OpenWRT Ones to supply wifi.(thanks @conservancy 👏 ) 🥰

Now we have one router at the @fsfe to remind people about the history of #GNU #GPL enforcement (thanks @LaF0rge 👏) and two new #OpenWRT Ones to supply wifi.(thanks @conservancy 👏 ) 🥰

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

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

Proud that @fsfe volunteer @nicolef went through this whole process with #sumup about the #GNU #GPL.

Nicole’s efforts show that individuals can have outsized positive impacts on #softwarefreedom, and many little steps like Nicole’s, when taken together, can amount to a large enough movement to further develop the #FreeSoftware movement in a positive direction.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250820-01.en.html

Thanks also to @conservancy and @LaF0rge for all the work they do / did on this.

Proud that @fsfe volunteer @nicolef went through this whole process with #sumup about the #GNU #GPL.

Nicole’s efforts show that individuals can have outsized positive impacts on #softwarefreedom, and many little steps like Nicole’s, when taken together, can amount to a large enough movement to further develop the #FreeSoftware movement in a positive direction.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250820-01.en.html

Thanks also to @conservancy and @LaF0rge for all the work they do / did on this.

So, any ideas on an exit strategy for when Linux fully embraces AI? Do we fork the kernel? Switch to BSD? Once Linux becomes AI slop, where does that leave us?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-AI-Docs-Rules

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-is-creeping-into-the-linux-kernel-and-official-policy-is-needed-asap/

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/25/1950226/linux-kernel-could-soon-expose-every-line-ai-helps-write

#Linux#FLOSS#FOSS#FreeBSD#GPL#AI#AIslop#AIart#Nvidia#Microsoft#Google #illumos

So, any ideas on an exit strategy for when Linux fully embraces AI? Do we fork the kernel? Switch to BSD? Once Linux becomes AI slop, where does that leave us?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-AI-Docs-Rules

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-is-creeping-into-the-linux-kernel-and-official-policy-is-needed-asap/

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/25/1950226/linux-kernel-could-soon-expose-every-line-ai-helps-write

#Linux#FLOSS#FOSS#FreeBSD#GPL#AI#AIslop#AIart#Nvidia#Microsoft#Google #illumos