#license — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #license, aggregated by home.social.
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Interesting to see all kinds of FUD on open source/copyleft licences emerging in (commercial/corporate) organisations over and over again.
I'm always feeling like that guy who spots someone on the Internet 'being wrong' when that happens. Just can't help myself.
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Ah, #cPanel - violating software licenses and bringing you remote root security holes for 30 years.
Truly the gift that keeps on giving.
#CVE #security #SecurityWeveHeardOfIt #license #SoftwareLicense
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Nevertheless, the #FCC order is an extraordinary escalation by the #Trump admin.
While the FCC asserts that the #license review is related to an ongoing probe into #Disney’s “diversity” initiatives, it is being widely viewed as a form of government #retaliation for airing #Kimmel’s show & resisting Trump’s pressure.
#law #fascism #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #media #entertainment #comedy #FascistStatesOfAmerica
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“#Disney’s #ABC is hereby directed to file #license renewals for all of their licensed #TV stations within 30 days — in other words, by May 28, 2026,” the agency said in an order published Tuesday afternoon.
The order will not affect the local stations right away. It is just the start of a protracted #legal process, & ABC has broad legal protections.
#law #Trump #fascism #FCC #Kimmel #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #media #entertainment #comedy #FascistStatesOfAmerica
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/835…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #anarchy #chaos #control #freedom #liberty #license #restriction #stagnation #tyranny
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/835…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #anarchy #chaos #control #freedom #liberty #license #restriction #stagnation #tyranny
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/835…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #anarchy #chaos #control #freedom #liberty #license #restriction #stagnation #tyranny
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/835…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #anarchy #chaos #control #freedom #liberty #license #restriction #stagnation #tyranny
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NRC Extends Operating License for California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant https://www.byteseu.com/1915430/ #California #DiabloCanyon #license #LicenseRenewal #NRC #Nuclear #NuclearRegulatoryCommission #PacificGasAndElectric #pg&e #Westinghouse
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Une coalition de neuf entreprises #européennes lance #Euro-Office, #alternative #bureautique #souveraine et #opensource #foss
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/149630/ Namibia Blocks Starlink’s Orbit: Regulatory Hurdles for Satellite Internet #Africa #communications #GovernmentNotice #License #Namibia #RadioSpectrum #RegulatoryChallenges #spacex #Starlink #Telecommunications
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MALUS license washing: A satire project claiming to use AI to reproduce open source projects without any copyright or license
https://malus.sh/blog.html
#via:hackernews #programming #opensource #license #parody #satire #funny #ai #+ -
Google to Discontinue Widevine Cloud License Service in April 2027
https://castlabs.com/blog/widevine-retiring-cloud-license-service/
#HackerNews #Google #Widevine #Discontinuation #Cloud #License #Service #2027 #Streaming #News
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I missed the absurd chardet license change story. 🫠
BTW I would pin chardet <7 and avoid using the relicensed version if you want to avoid issues. ⚠️
Quoting Madison Taylor from Nvidia:
"Given the existence of issue #327 chardet v7.0.0 is absolutely toxic." https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331 -
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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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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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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Can an AI rewrite of a software package be relicensed? It's complex, AND simple.
It may be impossible to prove it's not a derivative work, hence un-relicensable.
However, separately (US) Supreme Court upheld decision that machine generated code does not have copyright. Thus it also can not be licensed, at all.
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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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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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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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Crypto-friendly fintech giant Revolut files for U.S. banking license
https://misryoum.com/us/markets/crypto-friendly-fintech-giant-revolut-files-for-u/
Revolut, the U.K. fintech giant that offers crypto trading, filed an application for a U.S. banking license with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a key step in its push to expand in the American financial system.If...
#Cryptofriendly #fintech #giant #Revolut #files #for #banking #license #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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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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"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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"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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The proposal takes aim at the actions of #bar associations & similar professional organizations, not government entities, that investigate alleged #unethical conduct by #lawyers & consider actions such as #disbarment, which involves revoking a #license to practice #law [cuz, yeah, sane humans believe Rudolph Giuliani should still have legal authority /s].
#LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ABA #Federalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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The proposal takes aim at the actions of #bar associations & similar professional organizations, not government entities, that investigate alleged #unethical conduct by #lawyers & consider actions such as #disbarment, which involves revoking a #license to practice #law [cuz, yeah, sane humans believe Rudolph Giuliani should still have legal authority /s].
#LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ABA #Federalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
