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Good news today! Copyright liability reduced for ISPs, increasing user privacy as ISPs need not police user internet activity for copyright purposes. The courts agreed that it's not worth sacrificing everything for the sake of policing copyright. Read EFF's press here […]

The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft Copyleft gave us the right to be free; AI gives us the power to be free. The scarcity of programming knowledge is evaporating, turning the “freedom to fork” from a legal theory into a functional reality for every user.

The fundamental goal of the Free Software movement was individual agency over the machine. www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-fron... #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

I've published the first version of the Kyrodian Legends Public License! This license is similar to #CCBYSA and #AGPL, but sticks specifically to characters, settings, and lore.

codeberg.org/KelvinShadew...
#Copyleft #OpenSource #FOSS #Libre #Art #KLPL

The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft Copyleft gave us the right to be free; AI gives us the power to be free. The scarcity of programming knowledge is evaporating, turning the “freedom to fork” from a legal theory into a functional reality for every user.

The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-fron... #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft Copyleft gave us the right to be free; AI gives us the power to be free. The scarcity of programming knowledge is evaporating, turning the “freedom to fork” from a legal theory into a functional reality for every user.

If the GNU GPL was the legal hack for freedom, AI is the technical one www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-fron... #ai #chardet #copyleft #gpl #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.

The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years

lowendbox.com/blog/the-linux-kernel-wi...

#Programming #OpenSource #Copyleft

Copyleft What would happen when an AI model is trained on AGPL code? What happens with the generated code?

Spooky friday, and we have a spooky topic to talk, what about the Android project? Should we do something? Can we do something?

jeferson.me/blog/2026/03...

#AGPL #Blog #AI #Android #Apache #Copyleft #Google #GPL #License #Linux #MIT #Models #OpenSource #RightToRepair

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The pro capitalists are wannabe pirates. They want looting and pillaging to be legalized, so they don't need to risk getting arrested. The reason I prefer strong user rights being protected by copyleft software licenses like the GPL protections Linux provides instead of the nonexistent […]

Also impressive that the makers have chosen a #copyleft license and also decided to make a 1.0.0 release. That is not common within the #rustlang ecosystem.

The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.

#ai rewriting the #linux kernel and in effect kills #copyleft makes me sad. Open source was part of my personal proof of concept for some kind of #libertariansocialist way to produce which obviosly worked. #allrightreversed #kerrythornley #opensource lowendbox.com/blog/the-lin...

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…

"Whatever courts eventually decide about AI reimplementation, the question we need to answer first is not a legal one. It is a social one. Do those who take from the commons owe something back?"

#OSS #copyleft #license #software #GenAI

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Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.

Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise […]

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Recently the maintainers used Claude Code to rewrite the whole codebase and release v7.0.0 , relicensing from LGPL to MIT in the process. The original author, a2mark , saw this as a potential GPL violation:

tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-w...

#IAg #generativeAI […]

Copyleft is simple: share with others as others shared with you. Some say that large laundering models render it obsolete. I say it exposes those whose grasp of the social contract stalled out in kindergarten. It's as vital as ever.

#Copyleft

Made this creaking wooden ship SFX. Sharing it as CC0 licensed because someone on the internet wasn't a nice person. Use for anything you want! Please share it with others. #sfx #gamedev #sounds #ship #wood #pirate #sailing #solodev #gamedevelopment #cc0 #copyleft #noai 🔊⛵

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?

｢ If “AI-rewriting” is accepted as a valid way to change licenses, it represents the end of Copyleft. Any developer could take a GPL-licensed project, feed it into an LLM with the prompt “Rewrite this in a different style,” and release it under MIT ｣

#vibecoding #ai #opensource #copyleft

dead bird in a cage

Alien #EggPunk for Mutant Egg Cup in #freedownload archive.org/details/refu... #synthpunk #darksynth #electro #electropunk #experimental #dark #gothic #industrial #postpunk #punk #underground #freemusic #ccmusic #creativecommons #music #netlabel #nonprofit #copyleft #anarcho #antifa #ecologie

Drawing of Mickey Mouse killed by a mouse trap, captioned "shit happens"

Just when he got released from copyright prison...

#mickeymouse #disney #mouse #mousetrap #shithappens #comedy #humour #satire #copyright #copyleft #anticapitalism

Alain Sentour Moles Alain Sentour Moles

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Les "divagations artistiques" et recherches d'Antoine Moreau en Copyleft. Les amateurs d'art et de cryptographie apprécieront.
antoinemoreau.org
Plus de ressources sur www.libresites.org
#antoine_moreau #copyleft #cryptographie #œuvres #art #peut-être #art_libre

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版权主张测试
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RE: nostr.moe/notes/nevent1qvzqqqqqqyp...

#版权 #copyleft #copyright

Montajes 2025 Una vez más y como cada año, ¡muy agradecido con las compañías de  teatro que eligieron montar esta obra en el 2025! 21 montajes de  Mujeres...

"MUJERES DE ARENA"

Montajes 2025

21 montajes en 5 países: México, Colombia, España, Uruguay y Paraguay

mujeresdearenateatro.blogspot.com/2025/12/mont...

#dramaturgia #teatro #TeatroÚtil #TeatroDocumental #arte #cultura #copyleft

radio picture

In #FreeDownload archive.org/details/ardl... #FREE #radio #experimental #avantgarde #copythief #copyleft #plunderphonics #cutup #underground #experiment #symphony #postmusic #concrete #ConceptualArt #freemusic #ccmusic #creativecommons #harsh #noise #industrialmusic #postindustrial #antimusic

There should be an “internet buffet” for creators — huge libraries for combinatorics and remix work. Give broad access, and let people pay only for what they use. Scale fuels creativity; the remix isn’t theft, it’s artistry. We should enable those artists, not punish them for their work. #copyleft

#Copyleft is political and #FreeSoftware liberates:
www.draketo.de/politik/kommentare

Just found zbackup as a copyleft GNU GPL linux deduplicating backup solution for the @bce web page. ( https://bce.center )

Seems simple, fast and efficient. I've added it as a daily cron job, so we'll see how it goes after a few weeks.

#foss #backup #freesoftware #copyleft #zbackup #devops

It’s like sb was listening to me harping on missing the mix tapes (not so much LPs)! Mix tapes gave us the most wonderful form of practicing/experiencing copy*left* (not in the legal sense) but in the sense of curating and sharing in our most ordinary life, imho. 🙌@jasonclark.bsky.social #copyleft

#sound #peertopeer #p2p #copyleft #cc #netlabel #netscene #Romanian #electronica #music

It's #today in #Bucharest at the Goethe Institute. Expect lots of musical samples & snippets. If you're there don't miss the occasion.

Copyleft Won't Solve All Problems, Just Some of Them Toward a Broad Ethical Software Licensing CoalitionWe are passionate about and dedicated to the cause of software freedom and rights because proprietary software harmfully takes control of and agency in software away from users. In 2014, we started talking about FOSS as fundamental to “ethical software” (and, more broadly “ethical technology”) — which contrasts FOSS with the unethical behavior that Big Tech carries out with proprietary software. Some FOSS critics (circa 2018) coined the phrase “ethical source” — which outlined a new approach to these issues — based on the assumption that software freedom activists were inherently complicit in the bad behavior of Big Tech and other bad actors since the inception of FOSS. These folks argue that copyleft — the only form of software licensing that makes any effort to place ethical and moral requirements on FOSS redistributors/reusers — has fundamentally ignored the larger problems of society such as human rights abuses and unbridled capitalism. They propose new copyleft-like licenses, which, rather than focusing on the requirement of disclosure of source code, they instead use the mechanisms of copyleft to mandate behaviors in areas of ethics generally unrelated to software. For example, the Hippocratic License molds a copyleft clause into a generalized mechanism for imposing a more comprehensive moral code on software redistributors/re-users. In essence, they argue that copylefted software (such as software under the GPL) is unethical software. This criticism of copyleft reached crescendo in the last three weeks as pundits began to criticize FOSS licenses for failing to prohibit Putin from potentially using FOSS in his Ukrainian invasion or other bad acts.

@gedankenstuecke

This is a long read, but I think it has a much more coherent take on the idea of creating ethical, or political, and anti-capitalistic software licenses:

sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/17/copylef...

everything's better out of context, if the author's not dead I'll kill them and move time forward 75 years to forget them, your ideas are mine now because you didn't use them right.

#sorcery #copyleft #kopimi

everything's better out of context, if the author's not dead I'll kill them and move time forward 75 years to forget them, your ideas are mine now because you didn't use them right.

#sorcery #copyleft #kopimi