what licence can we use to force any entity using a library to make their project open-source
GPL requires this, since linking with a library is considered a derivative work even if the library is dynamically loaded.
This is why the LGPL exists, which makes the library copyleft but does not extend the derivative work classification to programs linking with the library.
Interesting, but ultimately a roundabout justification for why the author chose a non-FOSS license for their startup Slack-clone built on ATProto.
They talk about “pro-labor licensing” but what they mean is pro- their -labor, not pro- anyone else’s -labor.
GPL is already the most pro-labor licensing since it respects the work of anyone who contributes in equal measure, and does not hold the “original” founding author in higher regard.
It’s really quite something to rail so unequivocally against the “fascistic mega-corps” and “autocratic corpostates” in your licensing justification blog post and then build your commercial product on top of Bluesky .
The GPL doesn’t place any restrictions on selling or profiting from GPL licensed works. It only requires that anyone distributing the work provides the recipients with the same rights under the GPL, ie. the right to view, modify and redistribute the source code.
This means that a company cannot take a GPL licensed work and turn it into a proprietary product.
GPL is the only thing standing between us and Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.
There’s a reason that “Stallman was right” is a meme in the FOSS world.
Do you think IBM wouldn’t make Red Hat completely proprietary if they had the chance? They already tried to use their customer licensing to restrict source access!
It only takes one successful proprietary product to gain mind-share and market-share and become a new de-facto standard, and then all of the original FOSS has to play catch-up and stay compatible to stay relevant.
See Jabber/XMPP for an example.
The post is about NixOS. The intro paragraph about Arch is just a preamble to provide the motivation for switching.
Did you miss the actual joke of the piece?
the broadcom module is always significantly behind the kernel
Right, but if it’s not unmaintained then you only have to wait a finite amount of time before you get to update your kernel again yes?
but held packages like your kernel impact other software as well
Well… I’d be interested to hear what user-space impacts you’ve experienced from running a kernel that’s “weeks or even months behind the latest kernel .”
This country is cooked.
India has not exactly been known for the measured, rational responses of political or religious zealots in recent years, if ever.
Oh it’s the transphobic billionaire’s game. Nice 👍
If his defence presented it as a mitigating factor for sentencing then the judge is saying that they took it into account so that he doesn’t have grounds for appeal on the basis that his sentencing didn’t account for his disability. Just because the judge took it into account doesn’t mean that he got a lesser sentence because of it.
You need to learn about e and E motions, but also will take you to the end of the line.
Dylan Earl was handed 17 years and a further six years on extended licence for his “leading role”. Jake Reeves, from Croydon in south London, was given 12 years in prison with one year on extended licence. The offences they admitted made them the first to be convicted under the National Security Act 2023.
Jakeem Rose, 23 and also from Croydon, was jailed for eight years and 10 months. Nii Mensah, 23, from Thornton Heath, south London, was sentenced to nine years and 21-year-old Ugnius Asmena, who was homeless, was given seven years. The trio were each found guilty of aggravated arson and handed a further year on extended licence by the judge.
Ashton Evans, a 20-year-old drug dealer from Newport in Gwent, was jailed for nine years plus a further year on extended licence after being found guilty of failing to disclose information about terrorist acts relating to another plot in Mayfair.
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I am ALL Ken M on this blessed day!
We are ALL Ken M on this blessed day!
You think that when the Pope leads a prayer in front of a crowd of catholic worshippers that this constitutes the kind of “public praying” that is worthy of criticism? King Charles is the head of the Anglican church, so it’s no different. They are leading a prayer together.
I’m not religious so I don’t care either way, but to classify this as “disgusting” is to completely lack understanding of the context.
You need a visa just to pass through Singapore on a connecting flight?
It’s the bloody Sycamore Gap Tree all over again! When will this madness end!?
2019 called and they want their generation-wars propaganda back.
The headline also fails to understand the phrase “quiet quitting.”