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Arne Babenhauserheide

I want every program that’s required to participate productively in society to be #FreeSoftware

Because Free Software allows me to avoid direct remote control of what I can do. And it enables me to help others with my #programming skills.

That’s why I think we need #copyleft. Ideally the #AGPL, because only that keeps webservices free. And those are programs, too.

(a discussion got me thinking why I contribute to FLOSS projects; besides wanting to share what I create, this is the reason)

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Matthias Kirschner

After previously pushing #Neo4j to correct their abuse of the #AGPL our sister organisation the @fsf now submitted an amicus brief to defend #softwarefreedom . The #GNU licenses were designed to empower users and it is important that we as #FreeSoftware community make sure this is understood.

fsf.org/news/fsf-submits-amicu

www.fsf.orgFSF defends user freedom in amicus brief submitted in Neo4j v. Suhy — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
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jbz

⚠️ Adverse appeals court ruling could kill GPL software license
—@theregister

｢ In May 2018, Neo4j dropped the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) for its Neo4j EE (enterprise edition) and replaced it with a new license that incorporated the AGPLv3 with the Commons Clause license. The revised license disallowed non-paying software users from reselling the code or offering support services ｣

theregister.com/2025/02/27/adv

The Register · FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software licenseBy Thomas Claburn
#neo4j#gpl#agpl
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Appealscourt may kill a #GNU #GPL software license
If #appellatecourt upholds Neo4j v. PureThink decision, which endorsed database maker #Neo4j's right to amend GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (#AGPL), governing use of its software with new binding terms, current assumptions about enforceability of #copyleft licenses will no longer apply. Issue before appeals court boils down to the right to remove contractual restrictions added to the terms of the #APGLv3.
theregister.com/2025/02/27/adv

The Register · FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software licenseBy Thomas Claburn
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Preston Maness ☭

sfconservancy.org/static/docs/

>A licensor is free to apply contradictory and self-defeating license terms to its software; the courts are not bound to save it from the consequences of that choice.
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>By stepping in to salvage Neon's catastrophic drafting, the district court is forced to adopt an interpretation that cannot be squared with the balance of the NSSL.
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>This court should not contort the text of this important license to preserve the interests of a single party who wielded it unwisely.

The whole amicus brief is a good read, but damn there's some good sass towards the end XD

This is the sort of legal work that makes the conservancy shine, and I hope that the conservancy keeps its members abreast of this case as it develops. Good work Aaron Williamson and good work Software Freedom Conservancy!

@conservancy #foss #OpenSource #gpl #agpl #agplv3 #FreeSoftware #neo4j

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Boud

@ouvaton Je ne savais pas que le code source d'Overleaf soit sous l' #AGPL . Ce qui implique que chaque instance doit de façon *évidente* informer ses utilisateurs de cela : "a convenient and prominently visible feature" [0]

A coup d'oeil et par #SearXNG j'ai l'impression qu'Overleaf.com viole grossièrement l' #AGPLv3 . La licence est hyper-cachée.

#AGPLViolation #AGPLv3Compliance

[0] gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
[1] overleaf.com
[2] search.ononoki.org/search?q=ov
[3] search.ononoki.org/search?q=ov

www.gnu.orgGNU Affero General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
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Free Software Foundation

@conservancy spent their holidays writing a strong Amicus brief in the appealed Neo4j, Inc v. PureThink, LLC case setting the record straight on #UserRights in section 7 of the #AGPL. Read it here: u.fsf.org/45e

Software Freedom ConservancySFC Files Amicus Brief in Support of Users' Rights under AGPLv3§7SFC filed an amicus brief in the ongoing case of Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC, which is now appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeal focuses on a downstream licensee's right under the Affero General Public License, version 3 (and similar rights under GPLv3 and LGPLv3) to remove “Further Restrictions” — even when such restrictions are put in place by original licensors. SFC was proud to stand up for this important right under copyleft, and appears to be the only organization that filed an amicus brief in this case.
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Stefano Zacchiroli

Very important work by @conservancy , which tries to ensure the right of recipients of #AGPL (but more generally: *GPLs) software to strip disguised "Further restriction" clauses in free/#opensource software: sfconservancy.org/news/2025/ja . It is unfortunately something that happens quite often on the market (even here in France!), where such clauses are regularly used by vendors to turn standard #FOSS licenses into #badgeware ones.

Software Freedom ConservancySFC Files Amicus Brief in Support of Users' Rights under AGPLv3§7SFC filed an amicus brief in the ongoing case of Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC, which is now appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeal focuses on a downstream licensee's right under the Affero General Public License, version 3 (and similar rights under GPLv3 and LGPLv3) to remove “Further Restrictions” — even when such restrictions are put in place by original licensors. SFC was proud to stand up for this important right under copyleft, and appears to be the only organization that filed an amicus brief in this case.
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Bo Morgan

@ark74

I really like the gist of this essay. I love the mission of the FSF and the copyleft licenses and ethical goals.

I do have a problem with RMS being on the board of directors despite his unapologetic problematic beliefs. Unfortunately, I needed to double check and I have confirmed that he is still on the board despite his beliefs and lack of apologies. As a reminder, I feel it is important to share why RMS should be removed from the FSF:

stallman-report.org/

#fsf @fsf #foss #copyleft #floss #gpl #lgpl #agpl #rms #richardstallman #stallmanreport

The Stallman reportThe Stallman reportOctober 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.
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EventHub

Wir arbeiten aktuell an einem größeren Update des EventHub.

Darin:
✅ Token-basierte Authentifizierung
✅ Erweitertes Infoset
✅ API-Versionierung
✅ Dokumentation und Tutorials
✅ Mehr Tests und Coverage

Das Ergebnis werden wir bald unter der AGPL auf codeberg.org veröffentlichen.

Damit ermöglichen wir die breite Nutzung und Weiterentwicklung für alle Interessierten.

Featurewünsche nehmen wir gerne entgegen.

#eventhub #agpl #opensource #permissionless @Codeberg

Codeberg.orgCodeberg.orgCodeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
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Matthias Andrasch

@dvk interesting, never heard that the “application service provider (ASP) loophole” / "SaaS loophole" was closed in #AGPL #opensource. 💡

„Source Code Sharing: This is the big one. If you distribute any works based on the licensed software, you've got to make the source code available. And remember, in AGPL-land, offering a service over a network counts as distribution.“ openalternative.co/licenses/ag

Maybe there is a small chance that it might confuse selfhosting users who want to modify? 1/

OpenAlternativeThe AGPL-3.0 License Explained: Pros, Cons, and Use Cases – OpenAlternativeCopyleft license requiring source code distribution for network use. Ensures software freedom in networked applications.
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Jupiter Rowland
@Red It could.

But it was the intention of the creator, @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️, for all his works to be under the MIT license. The current Hubzilla maintainers, @Mario Vavti and @Harald Eilertsen, certainly won't relicense Hubzilla under the GPL in any shape or form, otherwise they would have done that.

It isn't even worth doing so just to have code from Friendica. After all, Friendica's backend is vastly different from Hubzilla's. Friendica is based on a mixture of ActivityPub and its own DFRN whereas Hubzilla is based on Zot with ActivityPub available through an optional add-on. On Friendica, your account is your identity; it doesn't have Hubzilla's channel model, nor does it have nomadic identity.

Red came to exist by Mike forking Friendica and rewriting the whole thing against his new Zot protocol. Hubzilla hardly has any old Friendica code left over. So it's safe to assume that Friendica's code is incompatible with Hubzilla anyway.

Generally, there's nothing on Friendica that'd be worth taking over for Hubzilla. Not even themes because theming works entirely differently on Hubzilla.

Asking Mario and Harald to relicense Hubzilla under any form of the GPL is as likely to succeed as asking them to implement all kinds of proprietary Mastodon stuff to make Hubzilla more compatible with Mastodon and Mastodon apps:

Not going to happen.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #MITLicense #GPL #AGPL
hub.netzgemeinde.euNetzgemeinde/Hubzilla
#agpl
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