#gplviolation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gplviolation, aggregated by home.social.
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Corporations mean you have to buy a new phone every 1-3 years because the parts won't be available. And also software support will end.
#FOSS means an HP Elitebook 840 G4 from 2013 is me daily driver.
Do you know phone manufacturers don't want a FOSS Operating System on their devices? Because they will have trouble selling new phones when the old ones still work good. That's why they lock the devices and also don't release the #Linux kernel source code, doing a #GPLViolation.
I had 3 heat strokes today, part of #HeatWave in here, because of such these.
It's not just about electronic devices. It is written all over the system. And unfortunately people also have learned to make as many trashes as possible.
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Corporations mean you have to buy a new phone every 1-3 years because the parts won't be available. And also software support will end.
#FOSS means an HP Elitebook 840 G4 from 2013 is me daily driver.
Do you know phone manufacturers don't want a FOSS Operating System on their devices? Because they will have trouble selling new phones when the old ones still work good. That's why they lock the devices and also don't release the #Linux kernel source code, doing a #GPLViolation.
I had 3 heat strokes today, part of #HeatWave in here, because of such these.
It's not just about electronic devices. It is written all over the system. And unfortunately people also have learned to make as many trashes as possible.
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exteraGram violates the GPL, and I cannot remain silent about it.
It remains closed source. Despite promises to open the code in February and being a fork of Telegram, which is strictly protected by the GPL, the developers refuse to share their code, citing "fear of theft."
#exteraGram #Telegram #GPL #GPLViolation #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareFreedom #Privacy #Security #Copyleft
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exteraGram violates the GPL, and I cannot remain silent about it.
It remains closed source. Despite promises to open the code in February and being a fork of Telegram, which is strictly protected by the GPL, the developers refuse to share their code, citing "fear of theft."
#exteraGram #Telegram #GPL #GPLViolation #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareFreedom #Privacy #Security #Copyleft
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#ServiceToot: Gute Taten (https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install/) müssen belohnt werden: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
Derzeit werden Spenden verdoppelt - lohnt sich also doppelt jetzt zu spenden!
#FOSS #Linux #AVM #FOSSCompliance #OpenSource #SFC #GPL #GplViolation
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ltmain.sh isn't a source file, it's the compiled output of a bunch of m4 code from libtool. The version of ltmain.sh in #GNU #binutils does not correspond to any version of the libtool sources (release tarballs or libtool.git). We don't have the Complete Corresponding Source to binutils' ltmain.sh! #GPLviolation :P
(It has a --no-finish flag that no libtool sources have ever had.)
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ltmain.sh isn't a source file, it's the compiled output of a bunch of m4 code from libtool. The version of ltmain.sh in #GNU #binutils does not correspond to any version of the libtool sources (release tarballs or libtool.git). We don't have the Complete Corresponding Source to binutils' ltmain.sh! #GPLviolation :P
(It has a --no-finish flag that no libtool sources have ever had.)
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Looks like someone has NOT clearly read the redistribution license of #PaleMoon before repacking it as an #AppImage https://www.appimagehub.com/p/2089967
#LicenseViolation #GPLviolation (misleading I know, it's not GPL. just using this for reach) #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
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I remember that back when the first lawsuits happened, journalists explained an interesting & surprising fact: if you are a company who uses (parts of) GPLed software and you get dragged to court over an alleged #GplViolation, you should have your lawyers argue that the #GPL is valid. Because if it were not valid, you would have no license. And without a license, standard copyright rules prevent you from doing anything with the software - even from simply downloading it!
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I remember that back when the first lawsuits happened, journalists explained an interesting & surprising fact: if you are a company who uses (parts of) GPLed software and you get dragged to court over an alleged #GplViolation, you should have your lawyers argue that the #GPL is valid. Because if it were not valid, you would have no license. And without a license, standard copyright rules prevent you from doing anything with the software - even from simply downloading it!
