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Important open source projects should not use GitHub
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| | [AI summary] An opinion piece argues that major open source projects should stop hosting their code on GitHub due to Microsoft's acquisition and advocates for alternatives like Codeberg or self-hosted solutions.
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Free Software or Open Source? - Humberto Rocha
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| | Is it the same thing? What's the difference between this two lines of thought?
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Creating a Third Wave of Free/Open Source Software
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| | [AI summary] The post reflects on the history and future of the free and open source software movement, outlining its three waves from 1985 to 2016 and proposing solutions for issues like sustainability, compensation, and diversity.
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the problematic GPL "or later" clause | Ariadne's Space
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| The GNU General Public License started life as the GNU Emacs Public License in 1987 (the linked version is from February 1988), and has been built on the principle of copyleft: the use of the copyright system to enforce software freedom through licensing. This prototype version of the GPL was used for other packages, such as GNU Bison (in 1988), and Nethack (in 1989), and was most likely written by Richard Stallman himself.