Notices tagged with gpl

♲ @conservancy@mastodon.technology: Our Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn, explains how we can restore #copyleft equality and rid ourselves of toxic proprietary relicensing (sometimes imprecisely called dual licensing) with a novel copyleft clause (invented by Richard Fontana for copyleft-next). sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/ja… #GPL #FOSS #FOSSLicensing #AGPL

Big things happening at #QOTO I wanted to update everyone on.

So as most of you know I had a year long back injury that put a lot of QOTO plans on hold. But I've been healed and working on bringing much of that vision to reality.

As of a few weeks ago a few close friends and fellow engineers wanted to join the team. I am currently sitting with 3 other new engineers and we are working on bringing up several instances including peertube, nextcloud, gitlab, discourse, and of course a newer version of QOTO. A full collaboration suite for others in STEM and the open-source community. All for free to its users.

This launch will coincide with several of my other projects many of you follow including protowaffle, ROES, Graphactor, Aparapi, Ferma and many others. We will host all the source on QOTO as well as make it the source for future software announcements related to those products.

Stay tuned for me.

#OSS #Programming #Software #opensource #GPL #Science #STEM #Git #fediverse

GPL is a hostage negotiation, or at best barter. I'll give you my code if you give me yours. There is nothing "free" about it in my mind.

MIT/BSD/Apache is true freedom "You can have my code, no strings attached, do what you want with it, just promise you will tell people it is open-source and who wrote it!"

#GPL #OSS #OpenSource #FOSS #Software

Interesting article on the US export regulations as regards to the Huawei ban which shows that it is even more viral than the GPL. Makes me wonder why some people and companies are so against the GPL when they have been operating under an even more viral regime that, worse, is controlled by one entity only.

#USA #ExportRegulations #GPL #Huawei #Companies

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/huaweis-export-ban-is-wider-in-scope-than-most-people-imagine/

On our blog, we discuss, compare & contrast the two primary options available for backporting #GPLv3's termination provisions to #GPLv2 : the Kernel Enforcement Statement Additional Permission and the Red Hat Cooperation Commitment https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/may/11/termination-backports/ #Linux #GPL #copyleft

With VMware finally announcing its plans to remove the non-complying #GPL code, Hellwig decides not to appeal. The VMware case wraps up:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/apr/02/vmware-no-appeal/

Today is the #InternationalVolunteerDay and as a volunteer-based NGO the @fsfe@twitter.com is deeply grateful for the priceless contributions our #community dedicates their time and resources throughout the year to help us spread software freedom in Europe. #FreeSoftware #GNU #GPL #FSF

So apparently it's news to most people that the #GPL allows you to charge as much money for distributing the source code as you originally charged for distributing binaries.

FYI:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowDownloadFee

Old X11R5 quotes, from the #oldfediverse, all from a single page https://web.archive.org/web/20110704183825/http://identi.ca:80/x11r5

> Gnome's help is not unix
> fontana, imo (biased), it's almost universally true that #gplv3 makes any given #gpl right clearly than #gplv2. But we're debating v2
> Juggling video codecs, resolutions, aspect ratios, pixel aspect ratios and bitrates in my hand
> Why don't i have no privacy

X11R5, you live on in my heart

@haitch I learned recently that the GNU Free #Documentation License is not #GPL-compatible and is not considered a free license by the Debian project. 👻

@matt What #GPL clause is this violating?