#gplv2 — Public Fediverse posts

Endlich führt die Uni #WireGuard über #EduVPN ein – und wir sind sehr begeistert! 🎉 Danke an das URZ, dass die Uni aus der #Cisco‑ASA‑Monopol‑Abhängigkeit löst und damit mehr Sicherheit & #Freiheit für uns Studis schafft. Open‑Source‑Lösungen stärken Transparenz und #Unabhängigkeit. 🙏🚀

#ciscoASA #CVE202520333 #CVE202520362 #StaySafeOnline #SecurityAwareness #UniVPN #CampusNetwork #GPLv2 #URZ #AntiMonopoly

Endlich führt die Uni #WireGuard über #EduVPN ein – und wir sind sehr begeistert! 🎉 Danke an das URZ, dass die Uni aus der #Cisco‑ASA‑Monopol‑Abhängigkeit löst und damit mehr Sicherheit & #Freiheit für uns Studis schafft. Open‑Source‑Lösungen stärken Transparenz und #Unabhängigkeit. 🙏🚀

#ciscoASA #CVE202520333 #CVE202520362 #StaySafeOnline #SecurityAwareness #UniVPN #CampusNetwork #GPLv2 #URZ #AntiMonopoly

New blog post: https://hexaheximal.com/blog/mediatek-and-the-gpl

#mediatek #gpl #gplv2 #linux #android #customroms

Have the open source and open data communities, including organizations like the @eff, @creativecommons, or the @fsf, given any thought yet to updating various #FOSS and other licenses to address the current #SaaS problem of code or data that isn't necessarily being "redistributed," allowing these companies to dodge the obligation to contribute changes back upstream? How about the privatization and unauthorized commercialization of material licensed under the #GPLv3 and #FDL, #CreativeCommons licenses, and other open-license content that is often scooped up regardless of licensing into #AI #datasets that are then put behind #paywalls?

To me, this seems very similar to the #Tivoization problem that led to the evolution of #GPLv2 to #GPLv3. It seems wrong that #OpenAI or #GitHub_Copilot can profit by putting licensed code, writing, or other data into a walled garden where even the original contributors that they rely on are charged for access.

I'm not anti-business. If these companies were at least making the data sets freely available, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with making value-added profit off of properly-licensed data, although examples like CC-BY-NC 4.0 are a notable exception that should also be considered. Companies like Canonical, Red Hat, IBM, and others have been making money legally off of open source software for decades.

Just because the label "AI" is slapped on something doesn't mean that companies should be allowed to ignore copyrights or licensing terms. If they want to do that, and licensing or requiring free access to open-content data can't prevent this land-grab, perhaps its time we collectively revisit the whole framework around #intellectualproperty that currently allows corporations like #Disney and uncountable #PatentTrolls to create ever-expanding assertions of property rights that prevent almost any material from entering the public domain within a single human lifetime.

We wonder if anyone is up for the challenge of figuring out how to repurpose the new NPU chips for simulating DNA structures and other interlinked bioinformatics simulation tasks instead of "AI" LLMs...

#dna #bioinformatics #bioinformatic #transhumanism #technology #tech #science #npu #simulation #freedomofform #opensource #gnugpl #gplv2 #biohacking

@geraldew @RTP @linux @torvalds @landley

The whole #GPL & #GPLv2 issue for example makes it basically illegal to build a #Linux kernel that can boot straight from #ZFS because #OpenZFS's code inherited from #OpenSolaris (now #illumos) is under #CDDL and thus when you install zfs-#dkms it gives you a big warning saying 'this is basically illegal so we've to make it a loadable module instead'...

And that's just out of the top of my head...

@geraldew @RTP @linux @torvalds @landley

The whole #GPL & #GPLv2 issue for example makes it basically illegal to build a #Linux kernel that can boot straight from #ZFS because #OpenZFS's code inherited from #OpenSolaris (now #illumos) is under #CDDL and thus when you install zfs-#dkms it gives you a big warning saying 'this is basically illegal so we've to make it anloadable module instead'...

@geraldew @RTP @linux @torvalds @landley

The whole #GPL & #GPLv2 issue for example makes it basically illegal to build a #Linux kernel that can boot straight from #ZFS because #OpenZFS's code inherited from #OpenSolaris (now #illumos) is under #CDDL and thus when you install zfs-#dkms it gives you a big warning saying 'this is basically illegal so we've to make it a loadable module instead'...

And that's just out of the top of my head...

@geraldew @RTP @linux @torvalds @landley

The whole #GPL & #GPLv2 issue for example makes it basically illegal to build a #Linux kernel that can boot straight from #ZFS because #OpenZFS's code inherited from #OpenSolaris (now #illumos) is under #CDDL and thus when you install zfs-#dkms it gives you a big warning saying 'this is basically illegal so we've to make it anloadable module instead'...

@geraldew @RTP I think #Linux being #GPLv2 is good.

Would a lot of people prefer it to be #BSD?
Yes, myself included.

Are some neckbeards angry it's #GPLv2only and not #GPLv3 or #AGPLv3?
Yes, but I don't think they matter beyond needing to quarantine them for their toxicity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SKenHRhMg

Fact is: @linux is a good project and solid product as well, and @torvalds managed to get both businesses and individuals behind it, resulting in a very versatile common denominator of kernel.

That's why I chose if for #OS1337...

@geraldew @RTP I think #Linux being #GPLv2 is good.

Would a lot of people prefer it to be #BSD?
Yes, myself included.

Are some neckbeards angry it's #GPLv2only and not #GPLv3 or #AGPLv3?
Yes, but I don't think they matter beyond needing to quarantine them for their toxicity.

Fact is: @linux is a good project and solid product as well, and @torvalds managed to get both businesses and individuals behind it, resulting in a very versatile common denominator of kernel.

That's why I chose if for #OS1337...

@geraldew @RTP I think #Linux being #GPLv2 is good.

Would a lot of people prefer it to be #BSD?
Yes, myself included.

Are some neckbeards angry it's #GPLv2only and not #GPLv3 or #AGPLv3?
Yes, but I don't think they matter beyond needing to quarantine them for their toxicity.

Fact is: @linux is a good project and solid product as well, and @torvalds managed to get both businesses and individuals behind it, resulting in a very versatile common denominator of kernel.

That's why I chose if for #OS1337...

@geraldew @RTP I think #Linux being #GPLv2 is good.

Would a lot of people prefer it to be #BSD?
Yes, myself included.

Are some neckbeards angry it's #GPLv2only and not #GPLv3 or #AGPLv3?
Yes, but I don't think they matter beyond needing to quarantine them for their toxicity.

Fact is: @linux is a good project and solid product as well, and @torvalds managed to get both businesses and individuals behind it, resulting in a very versatile common denominator of kernel.

That's why I chose if for #OS1337...

@BrodieOnLinux @fuchsiii OFC not - and not because they don't want to [tho I'd also nope ransomware groups' demands] but also because #nvidia can't legally do that in many cases, as they too are #licensees of #patents and are bound to #NDA's.

So #GPLv3 and #AGPLv3 are impossible to comply with and even #GPLv2 would be hard to.

Kinda like the shitshow #BusyBox did (gojng GPLv3 and sueing the crap out of license violators), so @landley left that project and started #toybox from the ground up.

The whole #OpenGameLicense debacle reminds me a lot of when version 3 of the #GNU #GPL came out, except that this time it's being done by a for-profit company that may make use of the new terms to go after other for-profit companies, so it's much more difficult to support the decision on intent (regardless of wording).

#OGL #GPLv2 #GPLv3 #GPL2 #GPL3 #freeSoftware #freeCulture

The whole #OpenGameLicense debacle reminds me a lot of when version 3 of the #GNU #GPL came out, except that this time it's being done by a for-profit company that may make use of the new terms to go after other for-profit companies, so it's much more difficult to support the decision on intent (regardless of wording).

#OGL #GPLv2 #GPLv3 #GPL2 #GPL3 #freeSoftware #freeCulture

@hkrn #MIT license - AFAIK - isn't #copyleft, unlike the #GPL / #GPLv2 / #GPLv3 or #CreativeCommons #ShareAlike...