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#PamDuress [1] is a small #LGPL package, looks serious and well-written, developed since 2021, though should be checked by people with infosec experience. Fork for #phosh [2]. Up to the user to write or choose "duress" scripts - not necessarily deleting anything - could be emailing an alert or audio/photo files to a trusted address.
Should be usable on any GNU/Linux desktop/laptop/phone for people whose threat model needs this.
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#PamDuress [1] is a small #LGPL package, looks serious and well-written, developed since 2021, though should be checked by people with infosec experience. Fork for #phosh [2]. Up to the user to write or choose "duress" scripts - not necessarily deleting anything - could be emailing an alert or audio/photo files to a trusted address.
Should be usable on any GNU/Linux desktop/laptop/phone for people whose threat model needs this.
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@valorzard this discusses #LGPL 2.1, but #Guile is licensed under LGPL 3 (or later) which gives you a clear path (point 4 d 0):
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0> Corresponding Application Code in a form suitable for, and under terms that permit, the user to recombine or relink the Application with a modified version of the Linked Version to produce a modified Combined Work, in the manner specified by section 6 of the GNU GPL for conveying Corresponding Source.
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@valorzard this discusses #LGPL 2.1, but #Guile is licensed under LGPL 3 (or later) which gives you a clear path (point 4 d 0):
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0> Corresponding Application Code in a form suitable for, and under terms that permit, the user to recombine or relink the Application with a modified version of the Linked Version to produce a modified Combined Work, in the manner specified by section 6 of the GNU GPL for conveying Corresponding Source.
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Existe la #LGPL que permite enlazar software privativo. Es la licencia que utiliza la #Glibc.
Así, cosas como las que dijo John #Carmack son erróneas. Ya me dirás qué valor saca #FreeBSD de la #PS5. Si casi no se obtiene nada de #Linux en televisores u otros dispositivos siendo #Copyleft con #GPL.
"The recent discussions around copilot are a good opportunity to say this: I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as #BSD. The GPL virality wound up being a net negative, and more value would have come from BSD. My partners would never have gone for it, though."
https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1412271091393994754 -
[Перевод] Лицензии слабого копилефта: могут ли они заменить пермиссивные (разрешительные) лицензии?
Среди открытых лицензий хорошо известны строгие GPL и (с другой стороны) разрешительные — MIT, Apache. Однако менее известен слабый копилефт, который находится между ними. А ведь эти лицензии имеют такие популярные приложения и библиотеки, как Mozilla Firefox, glibc, LibreOffice и другие. Подходящий ли это вариант для интеграции открытого софта с закрытым ? И стоит ли авторам ПО с открытым кодом использовать лицензии слабого копилефта вместо пермиссивных (если GPL/AGPL не подходит) ?
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1024508/
#opensource #patents #lgpl #mpl #epl #copyleft #право #copyright #линковка #gpl
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Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open sourceMost of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]
#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/ -
Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open sourceMost of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]
#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/ -
Hope of AGPL Licenser by Bovas De Quincey, an autobiography.
#agpl
#fsf
#gnu
#gpl
#lgpl
#richardmatthewstallman
#richardstallman
#rms
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Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
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Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
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Ah quand même !?
Bon... 'fallait s'y attendre... -
Ah quand même !?
Bon... 'fallait s'y attendre... -
#Chardet : quand une #IA réécrit un logiciel #opensource #foss en cinq jours et change sa #licence , sans vergogne de #LGPL à #MIT ...
Vide #juridique total... -
#Chardet : quand une #IA réécrit un logiciel #opensource #foss en cinq jours et change sa #licence , sans vergogne de #LGPL à #MIT ...
Vide #juridique total... -
An interesting #licence war is happening in the #Python world.
The popular `chardet` package has apparently been re-written (by assistance of the Claude #LLM). Undergoing this *version* change to v 7.0.0 the current maintainer has shifted the licence away from the #LGPL to the more permissive MIT licence.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't know about the deeper backgrounds. While a complete clean slate implementation may justify a different licence, I don't think that anyone who's been maintaining a package for years can claim complete lack of influence on the existing code base. So a licence change from one version to another without consent of the (original) contributors seems wildly inadmissible.
Additionally, if the author claims a complete re-write using Claude, in many jurisdictions (including the US) AI generated content cannot be IP protected. So in that case he'd have had to remove the #copyright (c) claim to his name as well to be at least consistent with the narrative.
This is completely independent of the authenticity of the supposed statement by Mark Pilgrim (original author) of `chardet`.
I'm interested to hear what others think ...
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
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An interesting #licence war is happening in the #Python world.
The popular `chardet` package has apparently been re-written (by assistance of the Claude #LLM). Undergoing this *version* change to v 7.0.0 the current maintainer has shifted the licence away from the #LGPL to the more permissive MIT licence.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't know about the deeper backgrounds. While a complete clean slate implementation may justify a different licence, I don't think that anyone who's been maintaining a package for years can claim complete lack of influence on the existing code base. So a licence change from one version to another without consent of the (original) contributors seems wildly inadmissible.
Additionally, if the author claims a complete re-write using Claude, in many jurisdictions (including the US) AI generated content cannot be IP protected. So in that case he'd have had to remove the #copyright (c) claim to his name as well to be at least consistent with the narrative.
This is completely independent of the authenticity of the supposed statement by Mark Pilgrim (original author) of `chardet`.
I'm interested to hear what others think ...
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
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@simon Obviously! The source code is: that code required to produce the binary. That code was LGPL. It doesn't matter how many algorithms, nor the nature of the algorithms, it goes through to become those 1s and 0s.
#law #lawfare #computerScience #intellectualProperty #licensing #FOSS #GNU #LGPL #MIT #code #softwareEngineering #LLM #codeWashing
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@simon Obviously! The source code is: that code required to produce the binary. That code was LGPL. It doesn't matter how many algorithms, nor the nature of the algorithms, it goes through to become those 1s and 0s.
#law #lawfare #computerScience #intellectualProperty #licensing #FOSS #GNU #LGPL #MIT #code #softwareEngineering #LLM #codeWashing
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"AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.
What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.
Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0
#FFS.
#AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation
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"AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.
What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.
Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0
#FFS.
#AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation
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Do you like Ruby? Do you like Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs)? Then you might LOVE this!
https://man.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/
#TUI #Ruby #Rust #Ratatui #Software #Architecture #Design #Roadmap #OpenSource #LGPL
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FFmpeg reicht DMCA-Takedown gegen Rockchip ein
https://linuxnews.de/ffmpeg-reicht-dmca-takedown-gegen-rockchip-ein/ #ffmpeg #dmca #rockchip #lgpl #linux #linuxnews -
Then again, I can just stfu, swallow my pride, say that #Java is okay to use and go over to https://github.com/git-moss/DrivenByMoss and clone that code to see if I can do any better.
#LGPL even. Heck yes.
