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subfictional.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The article critiques the push for new open source licenses like the Hippocratic License, arguing that they are not necessary for building communities around shared values. It highlights the importance of understanding the foundations of FOSS, engaging in practical community-building, and collaborating rather than imposing singular visions. The author emphasizes that existing licenses and the global commons already provide a framework for contributing to shared values, and that focusing on legal and community efforts outside of licensing is more effective. The piece also stresses the need for collective, evidence-based approaches over individual heroism in driving change. | |
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katedowninglaw.com
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| | | | | The past year and a half has seen a number of open source and open source-ish companies like Elastic, Confluent, and MongoDB change licenses on certain products, moving away from traditional open source licenses such as Apache 2.0 and towards proprietary, source-available, or ultra copyleft licenses. These companies, lets call them middleware companies, were responding | |
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www.consortiuminfo.org
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| | | | | It would not be an exaggeration to say that the magic of open source software (OSS) is based as much on legal innovation as it is on collaboration. Indeed, the essential innovation that launched free and open source software was ... Continue reading ? | |
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www.eliza-ng.me
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| | | Title: OpenAI's Actions Raise Ethical and Legal Concerns for Open Source Software In a nutshell: The recent actions of OpenAI feeding GitHub data into a language model have raised concerns about potential violations of open-source software licenses such as the GPL and the future implications for the open-source community. Open-source software has long been a cornerstone of innovation, allowing developers to collaborate and build upon existing code to create new projects and solutions. However, the recent revelations regarding OpenAI's use of GitHub data to train a language model have sparked a debate within the open-source community about the ethical and legal implications of such actions. | ||
