@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).
Joyeux #debianday à toutes et à tous ! #fr https://blog.desdelinux.net/fr/jour-debian-30/
utilisez, partagez, installez du logiciel libre partout où vous pouvez, faites-en la promotion, l'avenir ne sera possible qu'avec le partage, la liberté d'utilisation et l'entre-aide. Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
#gnu #gpl #debian
Cc @aprilorg
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
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.
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
#FOSSY day 3 kicking off with the SFC providing an update on its #GPL enforcement lawsuit against Vizio. Licenses only work when enforced, so everyone who works in open source benefits through this work. #FOSSY2025 - p.s., I think we all miss #groklaw
Richard Stallman - La révolution du logiciel libre et GNU | Le site de Korben | https://korben.info/richard-stallman-revolution-logiciel-libre.html
@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.
Euphonica is a Rust-Powered MPD Client Heavy on Bling
MPD (Music Player Daemon) is a server-client audio player long popular with Linux users. The headless daemon runs as a background service, typically on a remote audio server. Music is then accessed via a GUI client frontend, which connects to the MPD server to stream content.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/euphonica-linux-mpd-music-player
@glynmoody #Microsoft does have one viable solution, and it would require relinquishing some control. It would work like this:
The net effect: for the cost of perhaps a few to several million Euros, is that Microsoft [US] could maintain status quo the EU, except insofar as becoming unable to violate EU or member state law at the behest of the US government. The same model can be replicated in other jurisdictions, such as #Canada, and by other multinational digital services providers, such as #Alphabet (Google).
To make this happen, EU (and other) governments can require it as a condition of continuing to do business with Microsoft (and other multinationals).
Maintaining a monolithic multinational corporation is the legal equivalent of maintaining a flat network. Internationally federating a multinational corporation is the legal equivalent of maintaining a well segmented network. In the coming years, US-based Big Tech companies will need to firewall their non-US operations off from themselves, as outline above. And non-US governments will need to mandate that. The sanctioning of the #ICC was already proof of that necessity.
About #GPL .
If I buy a second-hand device with #Linux on it, who's responsible for giving me the sources?
It seems logical to me that the person I bought it from. But good luck getting sources from a private rando ( #sustainability #reuse ).
On the other hand, my #ISP sells me, say a #Huawei device. Is the ISP obliged to give me sources or can they say "it's not our problem" and send me to the manufacturer?
@carnage4life Good point & 
re: Brad Smith. His name is in the top five reasons why I stopped accepting "Brad" as my name circa 2001…I did not wanna share a name with the (then) General Counsel of $MSFT.
I think many don't realize that there is a *lawyer* (not a technologist) who has been President of Microsoft for years.
Brad Smith is also believed to be (we can't prove it — Microsoft state secrets) the mastermind behind the anti-#copyleft / anti-#GPL campaign of the early 2000s.
Cc: @liw
Ajajaj!
Něco mi říká, že tady Sovol3D se snaží porušit GPL v3 
Jaké mám možnosti tohle řešit? Samozřejmě jsem jim odpověděl, že podle licence kód zveřejnit musí, ale pochybuji, že to zabere.
Kontaktovat Klipper tým? Někoho v EU?
Have you made use of the bug report feature to report this to the programmers of KDEconnect?
Copyleft-Next Project - https://next.copyleft.org/ "A new, post-post-modern, non-weak copyleft license inspired by, though different from, the GNU #GPL." #licensing #freesoftware #opensource
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