#agpl

(1/2) #OSI leadership (both past & present) seem to take every opportunity to pretend AGPLv3§7¶4 doesn't exist. This time, it's done w/ sneaky & subtle politics. Pay particular attention to OSI's former Executive Director & a current Board seat occupant's posts upthread to mine: https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2026-August/022583.html For the record again: a license of “AGPLv3 plus further-restriction” is both an #OpenSource & #FreeSoftware license *b/c* AGPLv3§7¶4 allows reset to plain #AGPLv3 downstream! #copyleft #AGPL

I am pleased, terrified, and slightly unnerved to announce the relaunch of my blog, and the beta release of MiDy! Yes, another site generator in PHP, but this one is special. (Trust me.) https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/garfieldtech-v3 Feedback welcome, mainly through the MiDy issue queue but also in the PHPC chat room. #PHP #Release #OpenSource #AGPL

The open source lover in me is most excited about an AGPL project I forked and stripped down to a handful of functions while adding a bunch more. Despite ie being built to be easy to set up, I believe a large percentage of my target demographic may not own a computer (using their phone instead). I think the business model there is selling them a little cluster of mini computers they can self host that back each other up in case one of them is compromised. They could use the same cluster to host other phone accessible little webapp tools. #selfhost #opensource #AGPL #copyright #advice

Things are happening... Btw... when I fell somewhat happy with it I will drop it as #AGPL on my forge.

We gotta get rid of MIT & Apache licenses. Use #GPL, or better yet the #AGPL or #EUPL depending on your needs. Why work for free, for the benefit of capitalists? uutils is especially disappointing for me for that reason

📰 Bardzo polecam: o co chodzi z Open Source! "Szok. Naprawdę. Przez lata w PCSS tłumaczyłem ludziom z wewnątrz i z zewnątrz czym jest open source, koordynowałem działanie centrum kompetencji FLOSS, uczestniczyłem w europejskich projektach z partnerami z Brazylii, Chin, Japonii. I nagle siedziałem nad umową i zrozumiałem, że coś, co dla mnie było absolutnie oczywiste — dla reszty świata oczywiste nie jest wcale, i być nie musi. Nawet dla prawnika który zajmuje się technologią." https://techsimplifiedbybart.substack.com/p/open-source-najwiekszy-mit-w-historii#FOSS #OpenSource #GPL #AGPL #licencje

@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr overheard at #FOSDEM

“There is a guy who does a lot of work to help the fediverse and to push people toward it. His name is Donald Trump.”

This statement contains multitudes b/c #TruthSocial is a fork of #Mastodon. Initially, $DJT violated the #AGPLv3, but AFAIK they now comply with the license. I examined the fork & they primary code they added was an advertising platform. Obviously it doesn't have federation turned on.

Cc: @jzb@hachyderm.io

#GPL #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26 #copyleft #AGPL