@benjaminedwardwebb +9001%

#Paywalling access to standards isn't open - compared to that the anti-competitive #SSPL #license is open despite being designed to make it impossible to do any commercial offering with it (it's worse than #AGPLv3)...

I could at least understand if they said "Available for Licensing under #FRAND terms" if everyone gets to pay the same flat fee...

Personally it's still surprising to me that, as a case study, MongoDB is not primarily highlighted as an example of a firm that used the brand goodwill of "Open Source" as a way to implement a "Freemium" GTM strategy by choosing the most misunderstood and feared #FOSS license (#AGPLv3), then invented a new license that had a cloaked field-of-use restriction (or "constructive restriction" as @webmink calls it), attempting to warp the definition of #OpenSource

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #OSS

@ian The problem with all existing #Copyleft licenses is that they don't force those that take something to publish back their modifications.

#SSPL and #AGPLv3 didn't really fix that either...

@geerlingguy Not that I doubt that companies want to make #money and that they want to enshure that no #GAFAM - espechally #Amazon - just yoinks their code and make a better #SaaS out of it whilst contributing 0 $ or code back into the project.

Stuff like the #SSPL & #AGPLv3 won't fix the issues - in fact they'd rather worsen the situation, only empowering the rich that can pay lawyers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License

@s0 @tamitha

On the topic of hard-coded centralisation, it seems that the Microsoft-hosted version of Mastodon software [1] is *not* hardcoded to point to MS. If you are a Mastodon instance sysadmin, you should set the env variable SOURCE_BASE_URL and/or GITHUB_REPOSITORY to override the default link to MS [2][3] (in fact, per the #AGPLv3, you *must* do so if you modified the code).

#GiveUpGitHub

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22572

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikis_World#Consider_dropping_the_advertisement_for_Microsoft

[3] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/10600

As promised, lossless, transparent versions of the above 24px, 48px, and 32px. Icons that we declare Copyleft for the furthering, promotion and description of the fediverse and its #AGPLv3-licenced softwares.

At the time of writing, the orange versions of the pictured #PeertubeIcon have yet to be added to the project repository here:
https://git.disroot.org/fediOrigami/fediOrigami

#fediverseIcon #peertubeIcons

@rain not necessarily...

Some #Copyleft and/or #OpenSource don't allow you to do that.

I'm not just talking about "published source" like #Tarsnap's client, but also #AGPLv3 and #SSPL which are basically designed to prevent competiton - #GAFAM or not - from making any commercial product.

Basically aiming at monopolizing any commercial product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_License
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License

@itzzenxx @Seirdy @vamanimal @neurovagrant @signalapp

I want you all to think about this - as well as the fact why #Signal decided to #AGPLv3 it's "Client" Software and not FLOSS it's backend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

Because they don't want you to have control...

Seriously, #FollowTheMoney...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation

@glightly @KestrelSWard @brucetheknife

Searx [1] is #AGPLv3, privacy oriented, you can install it locally (I haven't tried) or you can use any instance from the recommended list [2] or find any other #Searx instance that you trust sufficiently. Some Fediverse instance sysadmins might be willing to run their own searx instance, e.g. searx.glammr.us, searx.newsie.social. Or even searx.mastodon.social.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx

[2] list of instances: https://searx.space

@academicchatter

If the FSF were more active / still relevant, and they were making a successor to the #AGPLv3 to cover new additional threats to #FreeSoftware and the four freedoms, such as LLMs slurping up #copyleft code without releasing the result under copyleft, what new clauses should be in the new license? If you were writing a new version of the #AGPL, what threats would you guard against, using what language?

If the FSF can't get their act together, is there any org that could produce such a license?

@pixelcode

Section 5, "Conveying Modified Source Versions", of the Affero GPLv3 sounds very related to this protection.

It sounds to me that anyone is free to distribute modified versions of the software, but to do so, they must also release the source code for the modified version they release, also under the same license.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

#gpl #gplv3 #afferogpl #agpl #agplv3 #afferogplv3 #freesoftware #libresoftware #foss #fosh #floss #flosh

@eve Yeah, and it's as imprctical for anything beyond hobby projects as #AGPLv3 for patented drivers and #GLPv3 for Linux.

Pretty shure #RMS would introduce forced labour on #GNU #Hurd as penalty for #GPLv4 violations.

En plus, lorsqu’un utilisateur fait une demande pour ajouter un paramètre et ainsi éviter les « appels à la maison », il se fait répondre « contactez Nextcloud GmbH directement »

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/38122

#nextcloud #LogicielsLibres #LogicielLibre #AGPLv3 #sysadmin #capitalisme #communauté

On peut comprendre qu’une entreprise veut survivre mais #nextcloud est un peu limite je trouve dans sa politique de « support »

Afficher un message aux utilisateurs « cette version communautaire de nextcloud n’est pas supportée » c’est vraiment pas super

https://help.nextcloud.com/t/this-is-the-unsupported-community-build-of-nextcloud-with-push-for-500-users/154477/11

#nextcloud #LogicielsLibres #LogicielLibre #AGPLv3 #sysadmin #UX

#AGPLv3 is the most protective of computer user freedom. Use it on source code repository services like #GitHub or #GitLlab to future-proof your rights.

#AGPLv3 is the most protective of computer user freedom. Use it on source code repository services like #GitHub or #GitLlab to future-proof your rights.

#AGPLv3 is the most protective of computer user freedom. Use it on source code repository services like #GitHub or #GitLlab to future-proof your rights.

#AGPLv3 is the most protective of computer user freedom. Use it on source code repository services like #GitHub #GitLlab to future-proof your rights.

#Vaultwarden 1.28.0 released – license changed to #AGPLv3

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/releases/tag/1.28.0

Boah, gibts eigentlich was schlimmeres als Menschen die ihren Erfolg/ihr Geschäft auf einer freien Software ( #Anki , #AGPLv3 lizenziert) aufgebaut haben, dann aber den Hals nicht vollbekommen und nicht mal ihren Verpflichtungen nachkommen können und ihr Scheiß Plugin ( #AnkiHub ) welches sowieso einen proprietären Server benötigt ebenfalls mit AGPLv3 ausliefern?