I decided to release the source code of my award-winning text adventure game for vintage computers, Silk Dust: https://github.com/DarwinNE/Silk-Dust #opensource #retrocomputing #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #GPLv3

GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People

I chose to write this.
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#GrapheneOS #Accessibility #FOSS #Blind #DisabilityTech #Inclusion #GPLv3 #espeak #a11y #Security #FreeSoftware #DisabilityRights #Android #Rant #TechShame

**update**: If you are using this post as some kind of call-to-action to harass and attack the GOS developers, please don't.

That damages everyone. You, them, and myself. It's not helpful.

**Update two**. I have made the decision to pull this post. It is not a good starting-point for a discussion, and just encourages defensiveness on both sides – when there really aren't sides here at all.

As a FOSS contributor, I am deeply ashamed at the way I approached this out of frustration.

Episodio 47: Falkon

https://open.audio/library/tracks/441498

@eloy #GPL wors poorly for #art, thus I recommend using @creativecommons instead.

• I.e. #CCBYSA would be roughly #GPLv3-alike.

#NotLegalAdvice

Yesterday, Micah Lee (who is apparently unrelated to the hacker above, but involved in authoring the 404media article) started publishing an analysis of the #GPLv3 source code of the #Telemessage #Signal derivative.

And he found hardcoded credentials. This generally indicates a not very professional and secure) way of handling data. Something, if you see it, should rinf alarm bells.

Apparently, this also in this case seems indicative of how Telemessage.

https://micahflee.com/heres-the-source-code-for-the-unofficial-signal-app-used-by-trump-officials/

@kotaro gramted, all of tuhe #Forks that are #BSD-licensed had way more #effort put into them.

• I just think that #AssholeLicensing is as bad as #Tivolization in terms of #OpenSource and #useability.

#SSPL is still worse than #AGPLv3, but #AGPL & #GPLv3 are just completely disregarding the legal reality of #IP and #Licensing.

• If they don't want to accept #competition, they could've chosen @creativecommons #CCBYNCSA instead, but they did not!

Needless to say if I were a #developer of it and had contributed under #BSD license I'd expect to either get my code removed entirely or the license to be kept the same.

• And now you know why I'll refuse to sign any "#ContributorLicenseAgreement" (#CLA) UNLESS I get a paid, non - term-limited position as an enployee in return…

#Proxmox Datacenter Manager provides a centralized overview of all your individual nodes and clusters. It also enables basic management like migrations of virtual guests without any cluster network requirements.

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-datacenter-manager-first-alpha-release.159323/

#virtualization #GPLv3 #sysadmin

I wrote to the address in the #GPLv2 license notice and received the #GPLv3 license | Mendhak / Code

https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/

#GPL #freesoftware #licensing

Each month we'll be making a financial donation to an #opensource project we highly value or depend upon.

This month our featured project is #FairEmail, a superb Android email client licence under #gplv3. We use it ourselves and would recommend it to our customers.

Find more information here: https://email.faircode.eu/

真的有人寄信要 GPL 授權的 copy...

Hacker News 上看到 2022 年的文章：「I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) (mendhak.com)」，原文在「I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received the GPLv3 license」。 作者在 GPLv2 看到這段： You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 5…

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/04/25/12366/%e7%9c%9f%e7%9a%84%e6%9c%89%e4%ba%ba%e5%af%84%e4%bf%a1%e8%a6%81-gpl-%e6%8e%88%e6%ac%8a%e7%9a%84-copy/

#copy #fsf #gnu #gpl #gplv2 #gplv3 #hard #license #mail #public

🎉 In a groundbreaking experiment of vintage technology, our hero mails a letter to an ancient address and receives...a predictable response 📬: the #GPLv3 license. 🚀 Who knew the postal service was the true guardian of software freedom? 🕵️‍♂️ Spoiler alert: Turns out, reading licenses IS as thrilling as it sounds! 📜🙄
https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/ #vintageTechnology #postalService #softwareFreedom #letterExperiment #thrillingLicenses #HackerNews #ngated

¡Amazfish 2.6.0 ha sido liberado! #UbuntuTouch #Flatpak (y esperemos que pronto en el repositorio #SailfishOS Chum)

Entre otras actualizaciones, hay una página de documentación que intenta responder a la pregunta de qué es lo que realmente funciona - ¡ayuda a rellenar los huecos!

https://amazfish.github.io/

Cambios en 2.6.0:

- Kospet DK08, Bangle.js mejorado
- Cambio de perfil automátic...

Sigue en https://t.me/ubports_noticias/409

#Amazfish #GPLv3 #UBports #UbuntuTouch #Lomiri #SoftwareLibre #GNULinux

macOS 15.4 中 rsync 被換成 OpenRsync

主要是看到「Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia (derflounder.wordpress.com)」這邊的消息，macOS 15.4 的更新中，rsync 被換成 OpenRsync 了：「rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia」。 macOS 的 rsync 一直維持 2007 年的 2.x 版，主要的原因是後來變成 GPLv3 了，而 OpenRsync 是 OpenBSD 團體弄出來的版本，使用 BSD licenses。 OpenRsync 畢竟是重寫一套出來，可以預期會有相容性問題，再加上 OpenRsync 本來就沒打算做到完全相容，但基本與常見的功能都有實作出來，算是堪…

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/04/08/12336/macos-15-4-%e4%b8%ad-rsync-%e8%a2%ab%e6%8f%9b%e6%88%90-openrsync/

#gpl #gplv3 #license #mac #macos #openrsync #rsync

La nanotecnología dará rienda suelta a los ensambladores replicantes. Licenciados bajo #GPLv3 estos permitirán un crecimiento exponencial de la productividad y de la riqueza del Pueblo. Sometidos a una patente, lo esclavizarán de forma poco remediable.
#EstatutoDelHacker

Endemm is an attempt to write a multimedia conversion tool that shall be easy to use on the command line and include support for conversion profiles and timeline-based multimedia conversions.

The source code is written in modern C++ and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3. The repository is on Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/ncc1988/endemm

6/6

#Endemm #Software #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #GPLv3 #CPlusPlus #Development #Codeberg

@landley @burnoutqueen Yeah...

#GPLv3 is a desaster as it's 99% ideology and 1% license text and alongside #AGPLv3 completely ignores the reality of how #licensing and #patents and #IP works.

• Not that I like the status-quo, but we'd rather see businesses steer clear of anything GPLv2+ or GPLv3 or worse.

And on the flipside we basically get "source available" stuff like #SSPL which only serves as a means to commit #AssetDenial and monopolize commercial offerings...

• I think #Linux being #GPLv2only is a good compromise and my personal gripes with #FSF & #GNUtils as well as #GlibC are something different...

@baris

I'm an excited user about the fediverse that was testing out try.nodebb.org and did some tests and liked it!

Even this is sort of a test but also a post about myself being a "NodeBB User", a federated user.

Perhaps the line gets blurred when we are all in the fediverse.

I've been impressed so far by NodeBB and only recently *also* realized you are a FLOSS GPLv3 project.

My emotional state: speechless

#NodeBB #speechless #GPLv3 #FediUser

NodeBB looks amazing!

I was searching who _elena@mastodon.social was following...

and I stumbled upon

julian@community.nodebb.org

All his posts seem to be federated.

NodeBB is in full swing!

This is the future!

#NodeBB #GPLv3