@caitp If you'd use one of the #PureData flavors instead of a closed source and proprietary #ProgrammingLanguage for your project and provide your #SourceCode under #GPL, I'm in. 
Even though I wouldn't have a use case right now, I love to support #FreeSoftware and welcome your creativity. 
@joe related, it seems to me that, as Microsoft's #copilot has been trained on #GPL licensed code, it must be assumed that any code generated with assistance from copilot contains GPL code and is therefore itself automatically subject to the GPL (either 2 0 or, at your option, any subsequent version).
The beautiful #cgi #animation Still – Ashgrow is made with a #motiondesign #tooll called #TiXL. It's better than #Adobe #AfterEffects not just because of #GPL license and #FreeSoftware status, but the powerful #node editing workflow, #timeline and #realtime support.
Check out the #piano & #particles https://youtu.be/Ka01mKhrZXI
I agree, @Rastal. At #SFC we continue the #Vizio case <https://sfc.ngo/vizio/> to yield that outcome.
SFC's earlier case <https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.html#best-buy-et-al> vs.#Samsung yielded SamyGo <https://www.samygo.tv/>, but sadly only works only on TV models subject to that lawsuit.
This impact litigation is part of our long-term strategic plan for alt. firmwares (ala #OpenWrt) for many devices:
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html
Cc: @brainwane @ajroach42 @mmu_man @drwho @cainmark
#copyleft #GPL
GitHub - libratbag/piper: GTK application to configure gaming devices - Piper is a free and open-source GTK+ application for #Linux for configuring #gaming mice, serving as a graphical frontend to the ratbagd DBus daemon. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (#GPL v2)
https://github.com/libratbag/piper/?tab=readme-ov-file
#ubuntu #debian #arch #fedora #opensuse #solus
via https://magicfab.ca/liens
TIL there is a EUPL license (similar to GPLv3) which has been specifically aligned with EU-law. https://eupl.eu
The context of companies wanting to rip out copyleft from Linux makes the push for Rust rewrites make a lot more sense.
https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Sami_Tikkanen_Explains_on_Rust_Language_and_Its_Goals.shtml
I suspect surprise at this …
https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/115010692432308881
… is b/c most don't know #LinuxFoundation has (for 10 yrs) slowly become less of a #FOSS org. LF has developed multiple proprietary platforms (e.g., https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/mar/13/lf-community-bridge/ ). Mike Dolan of LF is a friendly witness *for* #Vizio — a known #GPL violator (See https://sfc.ngo/vizio — we expect to release Dolan's transcript soon).
Cc: @derderwish @jwildeboer @celesteh @hipsterelectron @richlv @hrw @tobi @shine @alltherum @nirro @haui
@ikuturso
In case you have not done so yet, you should play around with Open Camera and advanced Open Source camera program which will unlock features of your camera hardware you didn't know existed.
I've tested the program on all of my current androids
@ramin_hal9001 Corpos already steal copyrighted text & code with LLMs, they don't care about the license at all.
BSD isn't to protect my code from ever being used by a corpo, which I know can't be stopped. It's to make it convenient for other people to use. I care about the teams of ONE or TWO who want something.
I can't use GPL shit, unless I make everything GPL. Or AGPL. Or v2 or v3. Or LGPL. Can I link to the proprietary library I need? NOPE.
#bsdlicense #bsd #mit #mitlicense #gpl
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.
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IMO, Richard Stallman (RMS) is a genius intellect.
But RMS is a human being who is terribly wrong sometimes. RMS is likely correct 90+% of the time. But #SoftwareFreedom should not incorporate papal infallibility &/or divine right of kings.
The #GPL Agreements are some of the best licenses ever written; I thank RMS & I've dedicated my life to adjudicate them.
Judge #FOSS folks on their actions,not their technical vocabulary.
This is *my* last word on “GNU/Linux”. (Posted for posterity.)
Response to a troll for the opportunity to say publicly why — in 2015 — I stopped saying “GNU/Linux”:
I say “Linux-based systems” — which I also recommended for SFC's stylesheet.
I ceased saying “ga-new-slash-lynn-ox” when Richard Stallman (RMS) chastised me for saying “Linux” (but not “GNU”) in a post about VMWare's #GPL violation. I *had* mentioned GNU GPL;no GNU software was in their product.
RMS told me I harmed #GNU every time I didn't footnote the word “Linux” & explain GNU/Linux.
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I have something else to be thankful for today. At this moment in time I am busy restoring functionality on systems so that I will be able to resume important remote tasks, which shall enable me to restore the level that I am used to, when it comes down to actual value of goods
This work is highly specialized and needs a set of computing systems, communication systems which use GSM messaging systems and other means of signalling, in order to properly Act, monitor react and deploy the remote systems, of which a set of those are managed deployed monitored and configured through Proxmox.
@gyptazy has made incredibly wonderful contributions to the community of Open Source and I'm specifically highlighting his work in for example the great Proxmox load balancer.
Through the Work Of Him and other hundreds to thousands nameless Open Source coders, programmers en hackers am I able to do this work.
I am fortunate enough to have virtually met him here on the FediVerse through a beautiful forward that @stefano has made, who also makes great contributions in Open Source
Without the work of these incredible people none of this would have been possible. I would be sitting watching this beautiful scenery that I would have made myself with props
There would not be any Open Source Operating Systems, plural, driving the displays.
Being Grateful is important. Giving Thanks sends a beautifully Modulated Pulse of Energy, through the Universe to everyone.
I am thankful to you all
Suggesting, as you did, that Big Tech is an ally in “right to repair” is classic cooption — same kind of cooption that led to Big Tech exploiting #FOSS,not complying with #copyleft & #GPL …even while spokespeople & lawyers for Big Tech lament that FOSS “isn't sustainable”.
r0ml once put it well as “free as in market, not free as in ride”. Problem is:Big Tech doesn't want a free & fair market for FOSS,so there is no way they want that for right to repair either.
Cc: @wwahammy @josh
I noticed the official repo of the AWS Neuron kernel driver hasn't been updated since 2020, even though releases exist as RPMs and are licensed under GPL-2.0. So, I've built a Go tool to extract and publish the source. It checks for updates automatically every week. Simple problem, simple solution to give everyone access to the source code of all releases.
More in my Blog: https://dominik.wombacher.cc/posts/automated-aws-neuron-driver-source-code-publishing-from-official-rpm-packages.html
What happened to @till in part shows why billionaires' whims shouldn't control software…
https://ubuntu.social/@till/114932477260801209
Mark Shuttleworth once shouted that “Software Freedom Conservancy is just like Microsoft” & publicly stated I was a “McCarthyist” for enforcing #GPL. Like most billionaires, he says & does whatever he wants & faces no consequences.
You are far from the only employee he has mistreated & most go on to do their greatest work after leaving Shuttleworth's company. I'm sure you will too.
@lolaodelola #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware maintainers deserve (and need) to be paid, if free software is to be reliably maintained as corporate users demand that it should be.
Dual licensing is one mechanism to do that.
I prefer the use of the #GPL, however, even if it deters corporate use, precisely because of its virality. Yes, corporates MAY use my work -- provided that they share theirs.
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