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benzogaga33 :verified:<p>Aeryth : Intégrer une AppImage dans un paquet et le bureau <a href="https://linuxfr.org/news/aeryth-integrer-une-appimage-dans-un-paquet-et-le-bureau" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">linuxfr.org/news/aeryth-integr</span><span class="invisible">er-une-appimage-dans-un-paquet-et-le-bureau</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/gestion_de_paquets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gestion_de_paquets</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/packaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>packaging</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/appimage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>appimage</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/gplv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gplv3</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bash</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arch</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@katyswain" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>katyswain</span></a></span> I din't think that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CCSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCSS</span></a> is good either, but the demands of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> are not compatible with the (adnitteldy shitty) reality of how <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Licensing</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patents</span></a> work and thus it kneecaps a lot of things.</p><ul><li><p>GPLv3 caused <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> to freeze their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bash</span></a> version and divest into <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LLVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLVM</span></a> and adopt <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/zsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zsh</span></a>.</p></li><li><p>As <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>landley</span></a></span> showed, enforcing the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPL</span></a>(v2) resulted in exactly 0 code being committed to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BusyBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusyBox</span></a> and it only made said project look toxic and litigatious. </p></li><li><p>Also i've yet to see anything happen re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SourceCodeAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SourceCodeAccess</span></a> for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grsec</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedHat</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>. Maybe <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv4</span></a> will ban <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/paxwalling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paxwalling</span></a> and force violators to work on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HURD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HURD</span></a>?</p></li></ul><p>I chose <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/0BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>0BSD</span></a> for _OS/1337 because as with any "intellectual labour", <em>one cannot force others to collaborate</em> and I'd rather have people join in out of the goodness of their hearts instead of just dumping <em>some random git commit</em> that is useless.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS1337</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@katyswain" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>katyswain</span></a></span> I think <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> did more harm than good due to being a later version of the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPL</span></a> and thus causing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LicensingConflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LicensingConflicts</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Worse even: many parts of it are inherently incompatible with how <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patents</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Licensing</span></a> works that if caused problems for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv2</span></a> as well.</li></ul><p>There's a reason why I've chosen <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/0BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>0BSD</span></a> over GPLv3 in many newer projects and even consider changing said license on those that I am the sole contributor of...</p>
Bradley M. Kuhn<p>Today, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@richardfontana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>richardfontana</span></a></span> & I restarted, relaunched, & revitalized copyleft-next.</p><p>All versions & variants of <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPL</span></a> are great licenses. But, today, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> turned 18 years old & <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GPLv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv2</span></a> turned 34 years old.</p><p>At least once in a generation, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> needs a new approach to strong <a href="https://floss.social/tags/copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyleft</span></a>.</p><p>These posts have details: <a href="https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q2/000000.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/n</span><span class="invisible">ext/2025q2/000000.html</span></a> & <a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/@next/114769761806288554" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedi.copyleft.org/@next/114769</span><span class="invisible">761806288554</span></a></p><p>I ask you to follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/@next" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>next</span></a></span> & check out our website at <a href="https://next.copyleft.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">next.copyleft.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. </p><p>FYI: I'll migrate this account to @bkuhn@copyleft.org later this week.</p>
copyleft-next<p>Today, we (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@bkuhn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bkuhn</span></a></span> & <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@richardfontana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>richardfontana</span></a></span>) excitedly announce that we have restarted, revitalized, and relaunched copyleft-next!</p><p>Today, <a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> turns exactly 18 years old. This month, <a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/tags/GPLv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv2</span></a> turned 34 years old. These are both great licenses and we love them. Nevertheless, at least once in a generation, <a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> needs a new approach to strong <a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/tags/copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyleft</span></a>.</p><p>Read more in this thread about the relaunch of the copyleft-next project … ( or read more on the post here: <a href="https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q2/000000.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/n</span><span class="invisible">ext/2025q2/000000.html</span></a> )</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://go.lema.org/santi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>santi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mos_8502</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@Wintermute_BBS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Wintermute_BBS</span></a></span> well, as for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv2</span></a> and <em>license enforcement</em>, using <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyleft</span></a> as a bat to club corporations with isn't effective.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>landley</span></a></span> still feels remorse for having started that with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BusyBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusyBox</span></a>. </p><p>Not to mention <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AGPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AGPLv3</span></a> really is bad unless one wants to commit <em>"asset denial"</em> aka. be an anticompetitive dickhead and at that point it's close to <em>"asshole licensing"</em> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SSPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSPL</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RSAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSAL</span></a>!</p>
UBports [ESPAÑOL] (No oficial)<p>Instalador de UBports</p><p>Hoy nos complace anunciar el lanzamiento de UBports Installer 0.11.0, disponible en versiones para GNU/Linux, macOS y Windows.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/ubports/ubports-ins</span><span class="invisible">taller</span></a></p><p>La nueva versión del instalador también será discutida en el Ubuntu Touch Q&A de hoy.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGA-AE7WgM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=svGA-AE7Wg</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p>Traducido de <a href="https://t.me/ubports_news/1169" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.me/ubports_news/1169</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/UBportsInstaller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UBportsInstaller</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/UBports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UBports</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/UbuntuTouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UbuntuTouch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/Lomiri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lomiri</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/SoftwareLibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareLibre</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/GNULinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNULinux</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Garanti BBVA Romania offers real-time RON transfers with Allevo <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1051615/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1051615/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Allevo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Allevo</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FinTechNewsEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinTechNewsEurope</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FinTPInstant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinTPInstant</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GarantiBBVARomania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GarantiBBVARomania</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InstantPayments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InstantPayments</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PaymentProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaymentProcessing</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RealTimeDigitalPayments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RealTimeDigitalPayments</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Romania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romania</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/STP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STP</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swift</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TransFonD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransFonD</span></a></p>
Davide Bucci<p>I decided to release the source code of my award-winning text adventure game for vintage computers, Silk Dust: <a href="https://github.com/DarwinNE/Silk-Dust" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/DarwinNE/Silk-Dust</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TextAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextAdventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a></p>
aaron<p>GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People</p><p>I chose to write this.<br>Link removed<br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blind</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/DisabilityTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityTech</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inclusion</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/espeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>espeak</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rant</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/TechShame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechShame</span></a></p><p>**update**: If you are using this post as some kind of call-to-action to harass and attack the GOS developers, please don't.</p><p>That damages everyone. You, them, and myself. It's not helpful.</p><p>**Update two**. I have made the decision to pull this post. It is not a good starting-point for a discussion, and just encourages defensiveness on both sides – when there really aren't sides here at all.</p><p>As a FOSS contributor, I am deeply ashamed at the way I approached this out of frustration.</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hsnl.social/@eloy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eloy</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPL</span></a> wors poorly for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a>, thus I recommend using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>creativecommons</span></a></span> instead.</p><ul><li>I.e. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CCBYSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCBYSA</span></a> would be roughly <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a>-alike.</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NotLegalAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotLegalAdvice</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kotaro.me/@kotaro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kotaro</span></a></span> gramted, all of tuhe <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Forks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forks</span></a> that are <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a>-licensed had way more <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/effort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>effort</span></a> put into them.</p><ul><li>I just think that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AssholeLicensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssholeLicensing</span></a> is as bad as <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tivolization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tivolization</span></a> in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/useability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>useability</span></a>.</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SSPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSPL</span></a> is still worse than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AGPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AGPLv3</span></a>, but <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AGPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AGPL</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> are just completely disregarding the legal reality of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Licensing</span></a>.</p><ul><li>If they don't want to accept <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a>, they could've chosen <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>creativecommons</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CCBYNCSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCBYNCSA</span></a> instead, but they did not! </li></ul><p>Needless to say if I were a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/developer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>developer</span></a> of it and had contributed under <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> license I'd expect to either get my code removed entirely or the license to be kept the same.</p><ul><li>And now you know why I'll refuse to sign any <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ContributorLicenseAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContributorLicenseAgreement</span></a>"</em> (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLA</span></a>) <em>UNLESS</em> I get a paid, non - term-limited position as an enployee in return…</li></ul>
Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Proxmox</span></a> Datacenter Manager provides a centralized overview of all your individual nodes and clusters. It also enables basic management like migrations of virtual guests without any cluster network requirements. </p><p><a href="https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-datacenter-manager-first-alpha-release.159323/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forum.proxmox.com/threads/prox</span><span class="invisible">mox-datacenter-manager-first-alpha-release.159323/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/virtualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virtualization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a></p>
Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴<p>I wrote to the address in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPLv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv2</span></a> license notice and received the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> license | Mendhak / Code</p><p><a href="https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-addres</span><span class="invisible">s-letter/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>licensing</span></a></p>
Gigaquad<p>Each month we'll be making a financial donation to an <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> project we highly value or depend upon. </p><p>This month our featured project is <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FairEmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FairEmail</span></a>, a superb Android email client licence under <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gplv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gplv3</span></a>. We use it ourselves and would recommend it to our customers.</p><p>Find more information here: <a href="https://email.faircode.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">email.faircode.eu/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Gea-Suan Lin<p>真的有人寄信要 GPL 授權的 copy...</p><p>Hacker News 上看到 2022 年的文章：「I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) (mendhak.com)」，原文在「I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received the GPLv3 license」。 作者在 GPLv2 看到這段： You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 5…</p><p><a href="https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/04/25/12366/%e7%9c%9f%e7%9a%84%e6%9c%89%e4%ba%ba%e5%af%84%e4%bf%a1%e8%a6%81-gpl-%e6%8e%88%e6%ac%8a%e7%9a%84-copy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/25/12366/%e7%9c%9f%e7%9a%84%e6%9c%89%e4%ba%ba%e5%af%84%e4%bf%a1%e8%a6%81-gpl-%e6%8e%88%e6%ac%8a%e7%9a%84-copy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://abpe.org/tags/copy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copy</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/fsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fsf</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnu</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/gpl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gpl</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/gplv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gplv2</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/gplv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gplv3</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/hard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hard</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/license" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>license</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/mail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mail</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a></p>
daltux<span class="h-card"><a href="https://bolha.one/users/cadusilva" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cadusilva@bolha.one</a></span> <a href="https://snac.daltux.net?t=copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyleft</a> desde sempre: a não ser que me baseie em algo incompatível, o código publicado por mim é <a href="https://snac.daltux.net?t=gplv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPLv3</a>+. O primeiro que publiquei já foi com essa licença e permaneço nesse intento. Não que meus simplórios projetos pessoais façam alguma grande diferença, já que, infelizmente, não tenho <i>feedback</i> algum. Mas, vai que...?<br><br><a href="https://snac.daltux.net?t=softwarelivre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareLivre</a><br>
UBports [ESPAÑOL] (No oficial)<p>¡Amazfish 2.6.0 ha sido liberado! <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/UbuntuTouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UbuntuTouch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/Flatpak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flatpak</span></a> (y esperemos que pronto en el repositorio <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/SailfishOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SailfishOS</span></a> Chum)</p><p>Entre otras actualizaciones, hay una página de documentación que intenta responder a la pregunta de qué es lo que realmente funciona - ¡ayuda a rellenar los huecos!</p><p><a href="https://amazfish.github.io/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">amazfish.github.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Cambios en 2.6.0:</p><p>- Kospet DK08, Bangle.js mejorado<br>- Cambio de perfil automátic...</p><p>Sigue en <a href="https://t.me/ubports_noticias/409" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.me/ubports_noticias/409</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/Amazfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazfish</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/UBports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UBports</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/UbuntuTouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UbuntuTouch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/Lomiri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lomiri</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/SoftwareLibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareLibre</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/GNULinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNULinux</span></a></p>
Gea-Suan Lin<p>macOS 15.4 中 rsync 被換成 OpenRsync</p><p>主要是看到「Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia (derflounder.wordpress.com)」這邊的消息，macOS 15.4 的更新中，rsync 被換成 OpenRsync 了：「rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia」。 macOS 的 rsync 一直維持 2007 年的 2.x 版，主要的原因是後來變成 GPLv3 了，而 OpenRsync 是 OpenBSD 團體弄出來的版本，使用 BSD licenses。 OpenRsync 畢竟是重寫一套出來，可以預期會有相容性問題，再加上 OpenRsync 本來就沒打算做到完全相容，但基本與常見的功能都有實作出來，算是堪…</p><p><a href="https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/04/08/12336/macos-15-4-%e4%b8%ad-rsync-%e8%a2%ab%e6%8f%9b%e6%88%90-openrsync/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/08/12336/macos-15-4-%e4%b8%ad-rsync-%e8%a2%ab%e6%8f%9b%e6%88%90-openrsync/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://abpe.org/tags/gpl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gpl</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/gplv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gplv3</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/license" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>license</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/openrsync" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openrsync</span></a> <a href="https://abpe.org/tags/rsync" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rsync</span></a></p>
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