#COPYLEFT

Stefan 'lerothas' D. :v_gay2:lerothas@tech.lgbt
2026-01-28

Heute, 28.01.2026, in "Wer weiß denn sowas?" als Frage:

"Ist ein Copyright Zeichen gespiegelt, sodass das 'C' nach links geöffnet ist, so gilt für das gekennzeichnete Werk, dass...?
A es nicht kopiert oder bearbeitet werden darf
B das Urheberrecht wegen Verjährung erloschen ist
C für Bearbeitungen dieselben Lizenzbedingungen gelten wie für das Werk"

Gute Frage, aber ich finde die Formulierung schwierig.

(Was geantwortet wurde, kann ich leider nicht sagen, da ich die Hündin raus lassen musste.)

#ARD #werweißdennsowas #copyleft #copyright

Studio von "Wer weiß denn sowas?" mit Publikum. Im Vordergrund Bernhard Hoecker mit Gast, deren Namen ich nicht kenne. Frage findet sich im Post.
2026-01-26

Looking for self-hosting companion(s)

Got deeply into self-hosting last year. A bit hesitant to open up to more than friends & family, but heck it's time. What's the worst that can happen? Nobody is going to read this post anyway :) #selfhosting #copyleft #foss #community

fsoc.lol/2026/01/26/looking-fo

2026-01-23

Llevábamos meses en casa con una impresora que nos habían regalado a través de un grupo de apoyo pero que necesitaba tinta... Las reinas magas nos trajeron un kit de recarga de cartuchos y teníamos pilas de papel para reutilizar... pero no ha sido hasta que he visto el kalendaro de @komunikilo de @titi que he encontrado la motivación para pringarme las manos.
Qué alegría da compartir y disfrutar lo compartido, ¡gracias!

#art #arte #repair #print #impresión #calendarios #copyleft #culturalibre

Un escritorio sobre el que se ven varios objetos dispersos: servilletas llenas de manchas de tinta de colores, un cuenco con restos de tinta, herramientas para recargar cartuchos, un teclado y en el centro de la composición la página de noviembre del calendario de Komunikilo que contiene la ilustración de "Lecture" de David Revoy.
2026-01-23

I usually use this story of blind men describing an elephant to explain difference between #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_me

A very widespread misunderstanding equates #copyleft with #FreeSoftware and permissive licenses with #OpenSource.

In almost all practical cases you are referring to the same software.

The difference is what you focus on and this focus difference gives you different conclusions. So I focus on 4 freedoms for every user ie, copyleft Free Software.

2026-01-22
@dado@social.novemila.org

Dipende da cosa intendi per "libera".

Un tempo ti avrei detto Debian senza indugi, ed a tutt'oggi dal punto di vista legale, tutti i software contenuti nei repository free sono distribuite con licenze libere.
Il problema di #Debian è appunto politico (e dunque tecnico): le scelte del progetto, pur attenendosi alle #DFSG si preoccupano sempre meno della effettiva libertà degli utenti, anteponendovi altri valori.

Comunque, se ci limitiamo ad una libertà minima, formale, ci sono le distro elencate dalla #FSF https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

Di queste, mi sembra promettente #Hyperbola, soprattutto per l'impegno a sostituire il kernel #Linux con un hard fork di #OpenBSD https://www.hyperbola.info/

Il problema comunque è l'effettiva esercitabilità di tutte e quattro le libertà, a fronte di una complessità insostenibile dei software distribuiti.

Avere #Firefox sotto MPL o #Chromium sotto MIT non garantisce davvero a tutti la libertà di studiarne completamente il codice: solo chi può investire mesi di studio (tipicamente pagati da qualche azienda) può veramente esercitare la libertà di studio. E ogni libertà esercitabile esclusivamente da un'élite smette di essere libertà e diventa, di fatto, privilegio.

Purtroppo Linux stesso (il kernel) ha una complessità esorbitante, misurabile in milioni di righe di codice, anche escludendo i blob non liberi.

Ne consegue che, ad oggi, chi vuole poter esercitare davvero le 4 libertà deve cercarle altrove.

I #BSD sono un po' migliori da questo punto di vista: ricordo una settimana passata a leggere il kernel di #NetBSD anni fa senza grandi problemi. Ancora meglio da questo punto di vista sono i #plan9 come #9front che in un paio di settimane può essere studiato da capo a piedi.

Il problema fondamentale però è più profondo di quanto non suggeriscano queste possibili soluzioni.

Quando #Stallman concepì il software libero, il maggior limite alle libertà degli utilizzatori (che erano anche programmatori) era di natura legale. Il #copyleft o le #DFSG erano strumenti legali (il primo) o comunitari (il secondo) progettati per evitare questo limite.

Oggi a limitare la libertà degli utenti troviamo invece vincoli tecnici (#SaaS, complessità del software) e culturali (standard intenzionalmente complicati da implementare ed una sostanziale separazione fra la figura professionale del programmatore ed il ruolo di utente).

Questi vincoli sono superabili con leggi ed investimenti in educazione e istruzione, ma difficilmente tali azioni possono essere proposte da politici ignoranti eletti cittadini mantenuti nell'ignoranza cibernetica.

D'altro canto produrre stack alternativi è difficile, non foss'altro che per l'assenza di risorse e coordinamento (nonché spesso di una visione architetturale coerente con l'obiettivo politico di massimizzare la libertà).

@dajelinux@mastodon.uno @lorenzodm@mastodon.uno
2026-01-20

@mike another very quotable closing paragraph from @ploum there:

#Copyleft was considered a cancer. But a cancer to what? To the capitalist consumerism killing the planet? Then I will proudly side with the cancer.”

Fully Automated! Solarpunk RPGFullyAutomatedRPG@mstdn.games
2026-01-20

We're preparing to release a new adventure and can now share the cover: it's “Solarpunk Technology and Nature together” by Loop-Chan!

We were able to use this free of charge (with their permission) because Loop shared it under CC BY-SA on the #storyseedlibrary ! Dope!
storyseedlibrary.org/art/loop-

#solarpunk #art #copyleft

Cover art of a lush city scene in an anime style with a woman pulling a wagon across from beneath the title "Politically Reactive"
Brain Computer Enterprisesbce@gnulinux.social
2026-01-19

Just placed an order for a new prototype PCB (Printed Circuit Board) for makers. This one charges NiMH (Nickel-metal Hydride) rechargeable batteries with charging speed options, support for up to 6 cells, temperature sensor, and USB-C plug.

This is a step toward our first accessibility product for blind people to feel visual art through a haptic pen-like stylus interface.

codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-b

#blind #accessibility #a11y #pcb #prototype #fosh #foss #freehardware #freesoftware #copyleft #ee

A 3D rendering of a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) with 4 breadboarding or prototyping holes on the left and right sides.  There is s space for a USB plug at the bottom with a space for 3 chips at the top.  At the upper right is a logo of a brain with the letters BCE overlaid.  On the upper right is a part name and version number that says, "BCE-BQ25172DSGR-1" and "v0.0.1.2026.01.18"
Bradley M. Kühn @ #FOSDEM 2026bkuhn@copyleft.org
2026-01-18

@cocoaphony,

With widespread violations of #copyleft licenses, & industry's propensity for ancient versions of system software, & proliferation of 32-bit systems in long-term production, fixing the 2038-01-19 epoch bug'll make Y2K look like a picnic.

In 1990s, I wore a t-shirt (now too tattered to photograph):
Front: “Linux: Y2K compliant since 1970-01-0100:00:00Z …”
Back: “… just don't ask me about 2038! 😬”

Who's up to spend 2033-2037 binary patching old #Linux installs? 😩

Cc: @johnzajac

[F/OSS 史唯: 우리는 LLM을 거부할 게 아니라 되찾아 와야 한다

F/OSS 커뮤니티는 LLM 훈련을 거부하기보다는, 훈련된 모델을 해방시키는 것을 목표로 해야 한다는 주장. GPLv4 또는 TGPL 같은 훈련 카피레프트 라이선스를 제안하며, 모델 가중치 공개와 훈련 데이터 문서화 의무 등을 강조. 철수 전략보다는 규범 설정과 참여를 통해 미래를 만드자는 메시지.

news.hada.io/topic?id=25879

#foss #llm #copyleft #openai #gpl

Christian Aubry 🇨🇦🇺🇦amicalmant@jasette.facil.services
2026-01-15

L'acteur Matthew McConaughey fait breveter son image pour la protéger de l’IA. Il souhaite s'assurer qu'il peut être rémunéré pour l'utilisation de sa voix et de son image par cette nouvelle technologie, selon son avocat. Cette approche proactive est nouvelle et intéressante, bien qu'éminemnent capitaliste. Il va falloir réfléchir à un système de #copyleft vocal doté de cadres d'usage précis, comme le #CreativeCommons pour le multimédia. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2 #cinema #people #ia #droit #usa

De la graine à l'humusLagraine
2026-01-12

///nagbvar zbernh crhg-êger///
Les "divagations artistiques" et recherches d'Antoine Moreau en Copyleft. Les amateurs d'art et de cryptographie apprécieront.
antoinemoreau.org/
Retrouvez plus de ressources sur libresites.org
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2026-01-05
trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:trashheap@tech.lgbt
2026-01-03

Imagine the FSF was developing a hypothetical software license under the branding of GPLv4 that dealt with the rise of LLMs. Which of the following copyleft features would appeal? #floss #linux #fsf #FreeSoftware #stochasticParrots #llm #eliza #ai #generativeAI #Programming #copyleft

2025-12-31

Why publish CopyLeft?

CopyLeft isn’t an invitation to a free-for-all, it’s a call from a wild soul seeking freedom from the biting shackles of capitalism. My novels are free of charge, not because they’re cheap, but because they’re priceless.

Why create? Why spend an interminable amount of time devising narratives expansive enough to convey the philosophical, poetic, & social insights I unearth in the collective psyche, only to give it all away to any grabby handed shill while demanding nothing in return, not even a reference to my name? What’s in a name? These understandings, these creative leaps in cognition are a gift, and therefore must be gifted onwards. Anything less than freely given doesn’t align with my higher Self, or the universal spirit of Love.

Nothing grows in a vacuum, and in that same manner neither does inspiration. The imagination needs an ecosystem within which to develop. Some writers are exotic plants demanding a very specific amount of sunlight & water; they cannot survive without constant care & attention or else their ideas wilt like petals in the glare of the critic’s laser focus. I am no such writer. I am a weed thriving on barren earth, writings rooted in salt-rock & rarefied air; I create when showered with attention; I create when roundly ignored. However a person creates, dreams manifest through co-creation, so to claim sole ownership of that, and then attempt to dictate how such inspiration is to be interpreted by others, is sacrilege.

CopyLeft is the abundance of apple trees in autumn, the wild-berry hedgerows; the blackbird’s song. CopyLeft is Tim Berners-Lee’s fight for the free democratisation of the internet; it is Danish writer Janne Teller arguing that if AI can scrape the data from books written by humans in order to democratise knowledge, then all AI platforms should be nationalised for a fair & balanced exchange.

‘All ownership is theft’, the old anarchist adage goes, and that includes ideas. Perhaps I'm a fool who gives her ideas away too easily to vampire souls who devour & regurgitate without any care for the original creators they dare not admit inspire them. But I have faith in the universal law of every action having an equal & opposite reaction. I know karmic energy sent out into the world returns, and so I don’t need to fight for my rights, I just need to create, share the work, & have faith that the people who resonate with my words will find me.

There is one caveat, and it is that absolute freedom to help oneself doesn’t mean that a person should do so without offering something of equal value back to the universe. That’s the catch. That’s the twist in every fairytale plot – you can take whatever you want, but beware because everything you do exacts a price and if you won't pay onwards exactly what you soul knows it should now, then a cost not of your choosing will likely be exacted at a most inopportune time & place. But still, like the apple trees, it’s not for me to dictate who can & cannot eat the apples, or how they’re devoured; the apple trees’ role in the ecosystem is to produce beautiful apples avec grâce et grandeur. It is for the forager to learn how to care for the trees so that an abundance of apples continues for many years to come.

Now I ask, could anything sent out into the world with such trust & Love fail? How is failure measured? I don’t seek fame or fortune, CopyLeft by its very nature negates those facsimiles of success while offering the freedom to focus solely on the heart’s imaginings. And what freedom! All that is asked in return is that I write the truth as it is revealed, no more, no less. Still, the path is long & arduous because this seemingly simple request actually demands nothing less than the stripping away of ego while embracing the psyche’s shadows in order to step into an authentic iteration of self I’m not sure I’ve previously felt brave enough to reveal.

This most authentic inspiration is a fickle, mercurial animal who vanishes at the slightest attempt at tying her to financial reward or egoistic gain, and so leaning into CopyLeft forces me away from those capitalist benchmarks towards measuring success through each insight translated with subtle artistry into compelling narrative.

CopyLeft takes the creative’s demand for sovereignty right to the feet of the capitalist behemoth, and yes perhaps this challenge has no greater effect than if I were to throw snowflakes at the beast’s flaming eyes, but if there were hundreds of millions of us, couldn’t enough snow dampen even the hottest furnace?

No matter. I no longer shoulder the responsibility of wanting to create enough of a snowball to start an anarchist avalanche because CopyLeft! Ah! CopyLeft will not disappoint, nor will she desert me, for she is the ideal I hold to when others’ obsession with capitalist success threatens to dissolve my faith in our capacity for Love. CopyLeft is Love. It says ‘I Love my creations more than money’, ‘my time is more valuable than cash’, &, ‘I have faith that the truth will find her way in the world’.

I cannot dictate where & when my ideas might reach minds that appreciate them, instead I remain wedded to the notion that these creations are, as I said at the beginning, a priceless gift to the universe in praise of all the inspiration she bestows, and as such I can only create with a Love-rich, cash-poor heart, trusting in diving timing: the universe aligns when the he[art] is true.

#copyleft #capitalism #freedom #sovereign #writer #amwriting #writers #inspiration #imagination #anarchism

Bradley M. Kühn @ #FOSDEM 2026bkuhn@copyleft.org
2025-12-30

@skyfaller

As for LLMs, I do have some ideas of what #copyleft-@next can do to deal with the issue and how it impacts copyleft in general.

I'm hoping to work more on this after the #Vizio trial is over.

#SFC

Bradley M. Kühn @ #FOSDEM 2026bkuhn@copyleft.org
2025-12-30

@skyfaller, to add to what @ossguy said, I think a #copyleft-@next should clearly state that the 3ʳᵈ party beneficiary right to users is intended. While it was clearly intended by #GPL & #LGPL, we've had to spend 5 years & substantial resources in #SFC's case against #Vizio to adjudicate 3PB under copyleft.

Decades of copyleft litigation has taught me that you really do need to say explicitly in the license text what is obvious to everyone, as bad actors love to be disingenuous.

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