#open-source-licensing — Public Fediverse posts
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No right to relicense this project
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
#HackerNews #NoRightToRelicense #ProjectIssues #OpenSourceLicensing #GitHubDiscussion #Chardet
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No right to relicense this project
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
#HackerNews #NoRightToRelicense #ProjectIssues #OpenSourceLicensing #GitHubDiscussion #Chardet
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What is open-source? With the rise of source-available licenses, it has become increasingly important to be accurate in our wording. Betanews has a great article about it:
https://betanews.com/2023/12/12/whats-in-a-name-why-you-should-care-what-open-source-is/
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Is Font Awesome #opensource or are they #openwashing?
The free version is licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International, which is not an OSI-approved license:
https://opensource.org/licenses/It's not software, so it's fine to use that license. But v4 was open source under SIL OFL 1.1.
I'm not a legal expert, but this seems to be source-available with a generous free license. Hence, open-washing? 🤔
Thoughts?
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Is Font Awesome #opensource or are they #openwashing?
The free version is licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International, which is not an OSI-approved license:
https://opensource.org/licenses/It's not software, so it's fine to use that license. But v4 was open source under SIL OFL 1.1.
I'm not a legal expert, but this seems to be source-available with a generous free license. Hence, open-washing? 🤔
Thoughts?
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Licensing model change to Elasticsearch and Kibana prompts AWS to create and maintain an ALv2-licensed fork https://buff.ly/3pi08LO #Amazon #Apache #OpenSourceLicensing #licensing #Elasticsearch #Kibana #AWS
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Licensing questions raised with #nvidia acquisition of #Arm https://buff.ly/2Rwgj93 #opensource #GPU #AI #opensourcelicensing #chip #supercomputer