I want every program that’s required to participate productively in society to be #FreeSoftware
Because Free Software allows me to avoid direct remote control of what I can do. And it enables me to help others with my #programming skills.
That’s why I think we need #copyleft. Ideally the #AGPL, because only that keeps webservices free. And those are programs, too.
(a discussion got me thinking why I contribute to FLOSS projects; besides wanting to share what I create, this is the reason)
#GNU and the #FSF have been fighting for copyleft the past decades. But if you look at their financial statement, you’ll see that their paid staff are just a dozen people. All the others are volunteers.
The Tor project alone has more employees than the FSF. Github has almost 6000 employees. Six thousand.
So the advocates for #copyleft must be us. We can’t point at the FSF and say “they didn’t do it”. They provide resources. We have to use them to protect our freedom as users.
10 years later...
"...and that's why Microsoft are doodoo heads and should share their improved version of uutils.
Mark Shurtleworth."
This comment brought to you by the "#GPL is still awesome #copyleft" gang.
I do not know how they would make it all that better, or if at that point busybox hasn't been fully ported to zig, but I stand by my silly joke.
@mjg59 my take on #copyleft vs. #copyfree is: I use the former for "serious", bigger projects. And use the latter, likely even #CC0, for small scripts, tools or projects. Which often more have an educational purpose, where I'm happy if people copy some lines or the whole thing, with no obligations. I don't want people to need to upgrade to copyleft or drag my name for just copying a few lines from those.
Copyleft / GPL is what I prefer for things that I had been working on for several days.
Evolution of existing #copyleft licenses isn't urgent as they do address the issues in this thread pretty well.
The missing part wasn't in the license drafting, but in (a) writing of technically irresistible code under those licenses, & in (b) enforcing the license vigorously if the agreements are breached.
We didn't do enough of (a) & (b) for 20 years & now we're here.
I & my colleagues are plugging away as best we can about all this & we're always open to suggestions.
@mjg59 @greg @glyph
IMO most comments you're making are about the elephant (er, gnu) in the room. That's certainly a serious problem, but FWIW, I & my colleagues at @conservancy work arduously to leverage #copyleft to defend users against bad corporate behavior & regain user control of your own stuff (rather than mere rhetoric).
Our Vizio suit seeks to adjudicate users' rights to install on their hardware & keep junk out of landfills merely because vendor drops support.
https://sfconservancy.org/vizio
The concept of "intellectual property" is the most silver-spoon-up-your-ass prep-school-rich-kid because-I-said-so authoritarian arbitrary-power-tripping bonkers banana pants bull shit I have ever fucking heard.
Ah !
Comment ai-je pu rater cet excellentissime article sur les #licences #OpenSource ?
Une (agréable – comme d’habitude) lecture indispensable pour comprendre en 5 min chrono !
NB : je cherche toujours un terme qui puisse remplacer « contaminante » pour les licences #copyleft, car je reste bloqué sur « se propage » qui ne me plaît pas trop (et « étend sa protection » – comme un vaccin ! –, c’est un peu trop long)…
I need a support group for people as pissed off as I am at corporations like Apple for keeping as many people as they do from making the most of modern computing while extracting as much as possible from those people.
L'éditorial de linuxmao.org du mois de mars 2025 est en ligne :
https://linuxmao.org/article466
#linuxmao #linuxaudio #mao #musiquelibre #art #artlibre #cc-by-sa #chanson #copyleft #creative-commons #culture-libre #gnu-linux #informatiquemusicale #logiciel libre #productionmusicale
"The Fourth Wall" collage by me, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
ESto es un #Hacklab... ,
en el corazón #copyleft
al Norte de #madrid
en la @csolaenre , latimos #juntas
Te estamos esperando
a bailar con Emma Goldman, Ada Lovelaces... y George Orwell.
sino ahora,
cuando ?
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Vecina del #fediverso ...
Si estás por #madrid
hay un #hacklab de corazón #copyleft latiendo en el barrio de Tetuán.
Haciendo & Aprendiendo #juntas
What is copyleft AI? What is copyleft data? How do we implement copyleft when it comes to data and AI and data used to train AI?
Happy to have 3 talks about the Cyber Resilience Act #CRA in the legal and policy devroom, which I co-organise for #FOSDEM
* The EU CRA and #Copyleft
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5291-the-eu-cra-and-copyleft/
* Legislative overlay: anticipating and navigating through regulatory vectors https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5325-legislative-overlay-anticipating-and-navigating-through-regulatory-vectors/
* CRA Q&A on #OpenSource Stewards under the Cyber Resilience Act https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6638-cra-q-a-on-open-source-stewards-under-the-cyber-resilience-act/
#DeepSeek AI won't chat about Tiananmen Square since it's #MadeIn_China. Of course only most ignorant people will complain if they receive a profound gift like a #cloud-independent #FOSS_AI model for #Linux #Windows & #MacOS...
https://ollama.com/download
No surprise that loudest voices are almost exclusively coming from the #USA, but that's #venturecapital & #siliconvalley related. Somehow, I haven't heard them when #OpenAI refused to answer questions about #USpol. So it seems like #USpatriots enjoy to pay the #SaaS price for #enshitification of the #land_of_the_fee.
https://youtu.be/Nl7aCUsWykg
Even when training data isn't disclosed, the #MIT license is almost as good as #copyleft...
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/LICENSE
I'd say #chatGPT needs to man up soon. Otherwise, it will be replaced by #AI. That's humiliating for #SamuelAltman #fanboys, but the irony — #priceless!
I am producing and directing an animated series called "Lunatics!" about the first permanent settlers on the Moon, which attempts to be as realistic about this as possible, drawing on present-day technology, and much of the organizational culture around it.
It's a *free-culture* project: CC By-SA 4.0 licensed for episodes and most behind-the-scenes content. And an open movie project in that source files from Blender, Kdenlive, etc will be released with episodes. For this to be truly meaningful, we also rely on *free/open-source* software to produce it.
There is a #Pixelfed for the project itself:
@lunatics@px.filmfreedom.net
and of course, a website for the series:
https://lunatics.tv
and the project:
https://lunaticsproject.org
This is my "professional" account, so I focus on topics related to my project: #Animation #Film #ScienceFiction #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Copyright #Copyleft #Art #Blender #Kdenlive #CreativeCommons #FreeCulture #ShareAlike
I often post little progress reports and work-in-progress here.
I try to avoid partisan politics and other acrimonious subjects. Also trying to watch my language here, keeping it PG-13, let's say.
If you would like a less filtered 
version of me, I do have a personal #Hometown (basically #Mastodon but not quite) account as well:
@TerryHancock@realsocial.life
NOTE: #Misskey allows a longer post length and also up to 16 images per post, which makes it a lot more convenient for my project posts. Buy you'll only see the first 4 images on Mastodon (there are 7 on this post, for example). There are subtle differences like this between #Fediverse platforms!
#Introduction
LittleClover 
@littleclover@social.linux.pizzaPlease consider donating to #Blender to help them sort out their financial situation. I cannot stress enough how important this software is to indie #studio to develop quality #animation without the need of giving up their fruits of labour to big enterprises (through #AI) and succumbed to heavy subscription burden. Everyone deserves to own the #software they bought from the market.
This video explains very well on the topic:
Why is Blender in Financial Trouble?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D1FcYknxEY0&si=5OIp4bJgqJcKt2wB
