Software freedom activist since 1992. Copyleft theorist & FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures. Views expressed herein are mine & not necessarily those of any organization w/ which I'm affiliated. Fediverse “claim to fame”: Invented “Affero clause” of #Mastodon's license: https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/11/21/stet-and-agplv3 1ˢᵗ #Linux: 0.99pl12 1ˢᵗ #Debian: 🧊🥔 Pronouns: he/them #copyleft, #ethics for #LLMGenAI, #FOSS, #OpenSource, #AGPLv3, #GPL, #LGPL 🏳️🌈
Software freedom activist since 1992. Copyleft theorist & FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures. Views expressed herein are mine & not necessarily those of any organization w/ which I'm affiliated. Fediverse “claim to fame”: Invented “Affero clause” of #Mastodon's license: https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/11/21/stet-and-agplv3 1ˢᵗ #Linux: 0.99pl12 1ˢᵗ #Debian: 🧊🥔 Pronouns: he/them #copyleft, #ethics for #LLMGenAI, #FOSS, #OpenSource, #AGPLv3, #GPL, #LGPL 🏳️🌈
Software freedom activist since 1992. Copyleft theorist & FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures. Views expressed herein are mine & not necessarily those of any organization w/ which I'm affiliated. Fediverse “claim to fame”: Invented “Affero clause” of #Mastodon's license: https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/11/21/stet-and-agplv3 1ˢᵗ #Linux: 0.99pl12 1ˢᵗ #Debian: 🧊🥔 Pronouns: he/them #copyleft, #ethics for #LLMGenAI, #FOSS, #OpenSource, #AGPLv3, #GPL, #LGPL 🏳️🌈
Folks here might be interested in this post I just made to the copyleft-@next@fedi.copyleft.org mailing list — covering many issues including:
- Do we still need weak #copyleft at all?
- How do we deal with companies who use strong copyleft as a bait-and-switch?
- The so-called¹ “FOSS sustainability” problem. https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2026q3/000091.html
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.
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