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  1. Tuesday, July 14, 2026

    New era of war begins: Ukrainian sea, ground drone team up for combat mission on Kinburn Spit . . . . . Ukraine drones struck 15 more Russian vessels as Sea of Azov campaign reaches 105 ships total . . . . . Ukraine, 9 European partners launch anti-ballistic missile coalition to support Freya air defense project . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  2. 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/

    #GPL #LGPL #license #opensource #freesoftware

  3. 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 ...

    theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_

    #license #GenAI #IntellectualProperty

  4. "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.

    github.com/chardet/chardet/rel

    #FFS.

    #AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation

  5. 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

  6. Salut @Pyb en formation avec des offices de tourisme, sur les #communs_numeriques. Nous allons y aborder plusieurs sujets dont #wikipedia, #commons #panoramax, #OpenStreetMap après avoir abordé les #logicielslibre #license ...
    2 points importants effectivement :
    - le fait qu'il existe des offres / "rejoint" l'existence des wikipédiens en résidence (l'importance de WP !)
    - évidemment le respect des règles du commun utilisé

    à quand des wikipediens en résidences touristiques :)

  7. #DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s #License Data for #Citizenship Checks

    It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the #Trump administration claims will help identify #noncitizens on #voter rolls and tighten #immigration enforcement.
    #privacy #ICE #Immigrants #driverslicense #MAGA

    propublica.org/article/dhs-cit?

  8. 🐢💤 In this epic yawn-fest, the author bravely declares #GPL code irrelevant while valiantly waving #BSD flags. As the Internet collectively snoozes, we eagerly await the riveting sequel: "Why My #Opinion on #License Types Will Change Everything Forever." 🏆🤦‍♂️
    josephg.com/blog/in-the-long-r #Debate #Snoozefest #Piece #HackerNews #ngated

  9. YellOut festival

    La Sotterenea, Friday, March 7 at 07:00 PM EST

    ⛓️‍💥 YELL OUT FEST - 3e ÉDITION ⛓️‍💥
    SHOWS - MARCH 7th & MARCH 8th, 2025 AT LA SOTTERENEA
    MARKET & WORKSHOPS -

    FRIDAY MARCH 7TH, 2025 (EVENING)
    SHOW: LA SOTTERENEA
    DOORS 7:00 PM - SHOW 8:00PM

    BLOSSOM (Burlington, VT, USA)
    https://blossomvthc.bandcamp.com/album/blossom

    NO CHAIN (Boston, MA, USA)
    https://nochain.bandcamp.com/album/i

    UZU (Montréal, QC)
    https://uzupunk.bandcamp.com/album/uzu

    BOOT (Ottawa, ON)
    Music to come.

    CHILOPODA (Ottawa, ON)
    Music to come.

    MOROSE (Montréal, QC)
    https://morosemtl.bandcamp.com/album/morose

    SATURDAY MARCH 8TH 2025
    WORKSHOPS AND MARKET AT DIRA & AUX RÉVOLTES
    12:00PM TO 7:00PM

    SATURDAY MARCH 8TH, 2025
    SHOW: LA SOTTERENEA
    DOORS 7:00 PM - SHOW 8:00PM

    DESPERTÁ (St. John’s, NL)
    https://desperta.bandcamp.com/album/despert

    BRASS LIP (Calgary, AB)
    https://brasslip.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2

    DUREX (Montréal, QC)
    https://durex.bandcamp.com/album/durex-fucks-demo

    LICENSE (Ottawa, ON)
    https://license.bandcamp.com

    PIED DE BICHE (Montréal, QC)
    https://pied-de-biche.bandcamp.com/album/demo-1

    TAXI GIRLS (Montréal, QC)
    https://taxigirls.bandcamp.com/album/coming-up-roses-2

    This year, festival's profits will be donated to Palestinian people.

    As the Israeli military operation in Gaza is still ongoing and the conflict has spread to other countries in the Middle East, for Yell Out 2025, we intend to send a large portion of the festival profits towards humanitarian causes in this region to support the people suffering from the acts of power, religion and violence. The brutal consequences of war leave no one safe and force people and their families to be displaced, and women and girls are extremely exposed to all kinds of risks and suffer from the lack of access to supplies, services, and resources.

    Solidarity!

    Come out and support your local feminist crew!

    montreal.askapunk.net/event/ye