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Bradley M. Kühn @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org · Aug 03, 2026
(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
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Larry Garfield @Crell@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca
@mhoye@cosocial.ca I have said for years that Open Source is a threat to Free Software. Free Software's core principle is protecting users from developers, because developers cannot be trusted. Open Source's core principle is "hey, free stuff!" I really wish web frameworks had all gone AGPL instead of MIT/BSD. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GPL #Copyleft
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bkuhn
Bradley M. Kühn @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org · Jul 15, 2026

Folks here might be interested in this post I just made to the copyleft-@next@fedi.copyleft.org mailing list — covering many issues including:

¹ In the age of #LLM-gen-AI, ppl still use the word “sustainable” to refer to #FOSS developers not getting paid enough is #disturbing.

#licensing #FreeSoftware #AI #OpenSource

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ZephyrXero @zephyrxero@layer8.space · Jul 05, 2026
Almost all LLMs have been trained off of GPL'd code, thus they are derivative works and are also all bound by the GPL. Especially if they ingested AGPL code #ai #llm #gpl #opensource #bigtech #copyleft #freeSoftware
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Software Freedom Conservancy @conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org · Jul 03, 2026
Today is a good day to finally #GiveUpGitHub! & now there's YA reason: last week, #GitHub urged the FOSS community to *oppose* important #California legislation that places transparency and consumer rights requirements on deployment of LLM-gen-AI! GitHub's tactic? Disinformation claiming #FOSS licenses are incompatible with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §22757 and California #SB1000 (which seeks to amend §22757). Read the analysis: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/jul/03/github-gen-ai-california-22757-ok-for-foss-license/ #LLM #AI #copyleft #GPL #Microsoft #law
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𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™ @kubikpixel@chaos.social · May 29, 2024
Replying to @kubikpixel@chaos.social
🧵 …von den oben in der Toot-Reihe erwähnten Suchmaschinen, nutze ich momentan #SearXNG und #Stract neben @Mojeek@mastodon.social noch #Openverse für freie #Copyleft & Co. #Bild'er, #Grafik'en und #Foto's ua bei der Webseit-Gestaltung und der gleichen. 🔎 https://openverse.org/de
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claude @mathr@post.lurk.org · Jun 14, 2026
Boosted by Welcoming committee @welcome@friends.deko.cloud
5000th toot! #introduction time. I'm originally from London, UK, now based in Alt Empordà. I make #CreativeCoding #MathArt. I use Linux since 2004 or so, currently happy with Debian though I need to find something else to keep my remaining 32bit hardware up to date #permacomputing. Most of my code is published under #copyleft licenses. I started making music on classic #Amiga, using #OctaMED SoundStudio until 2003. Then I used #PureData until 2011, but mousing patch cables was increasingly not fun so I wrote pdlua to embed Lua in Pd and later fixed some things to let libpd be compiled with emscripten to run in web browsers. In 2012 I started #LiveCoding music in the #C programming language, which I still do. Always interested in #fractals, I wrote some libraries to support my investigation of the #MandelbrotSet. I took over maintenance of Kalle's Fraktaler 2, but eventually I was fed up with its code and wrote Fraktaler-3 from scratch, to support deep zooming into hybrid escape time fractals. A companion program Zoomasm is for video output. I have a lot of projects, most sleeping until I feel inspired to work on them some more. Currently working on Mandeltron, a thing that combines live-coding with the Mandelbrot set. More on my website, including blog going back to 2005: https://mathr.co.uk
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kkarhan @kkarhan@jorts.horse · Apr 22, 2026
Replying to @petrillic@hachyderm.io
@petrillic@hachyderm.io Worse is when you have folks in other juristictions use a "non-license" that isn't legally accepted like "#PublicDomain". #0BSD is by far the most permissible for #Software, but #licensing may have good reasons for beibg chosen.#CC0 is the closest to "public domain" (except the authorship disavowal part) for creative works (incl. writing)I'm not a lawyer and AFAIK there's only #downstream forward compatibility for #copyleft, so yeah, not easy if impossible!
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Bradley M. Kühn @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org · Jan 31, 2026
Replying to on mastodon.gougere.fr

@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

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