The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.

The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years

lowendbox.com/blog/the-linux-kernel-wi...

#Programming #OpenSource #Copyleft

Spooky friday, and we have a spooky topic to talk, what about the Android project? Should we do something? Can we do something?

jeferson.me/blog/2026/03...

#AGPL #Blog #AI #Android #Apache #Copyleft #Google #GPL #License #Linux #MIT #Models #OpenSource #RightToRepair

The pro capitalists are wannabe pirates. They want looting and pillaging to be legalized, so they don't need to risk getting arrested. The reason I prefer strong user rights being protected by copyleft software licenses like the GPL protections Linux provides instead of the nonexistent […]

Also impressive that the makers have chosen a #copyleft license and also decided to make a 1.0.0 release. That is not common within the #rustlang ecosystem.

The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.

#ai rewriting the #linux kernel and in effect kills #copyleft makes me sad. Open source was part of my personal proof of concept for some kind of #libertariansocialist way to produce which obviosly worked. #allrightreversed #kerrythornley #opensource lowendbox.com/blog/the-lin...

"Whatever courts eventually decide about AI reimplementation, the question we need to answer first is not a legal one. It is a social one. Do those who take from the commons owe something back?"

#OSS #copyleft #license #software #GenAI

writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/lega...

Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.

Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise […]

Recently the maintainers used Claude Code to rewrite the whole codebase and release v7.0.0 , relicensing from LGPL to MIT in the process. The original author, a2mark , saw this as a potential GPL violation:

tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-w...

#IAg #generativeAI […]

Copyleft is simple: share with others as others shared with you. Some say that large laundering models render it obsolete. I say it exposes those whose grasp of the social contract stalled out in kindergarten. It's as vital as ever.

#Copyleft

Made this creaking wooden ship SFX. Sharing it as CC0 licensed because someone on the internet wasn't a nice person. Use for anything you want! Please share it with others. #sfx #gamedev #sounds #ship #wood #pirate #sailing #solodev #gamedevelopment #cc0 #copyleft #noai 🔊⛵

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?

｢ If “AI-rewriting” is accepted as a valid way to change licenses, it represents the end of Copyleft. Any developer could take a GPL-licensed project, feed it into an LLM with the prompt “Rewrite this in a different style,” and release it under MIT ｣

#vibecoding #ai #opensource #copyleft

dead bird in a cage

Alien #EggPunk for Mutant Egg Cup in #freedownload archive.org/details/refu... #synthpunk #darksynth #electro #electropunk #experimental #dark #gothic #industrial #postpunk #punk #underground #freemusic #ccmusic #creativecommons #music #netlabel #nonprofit #copyleft #anarcho #antifa #ecologie

Drawing of Mickey Mouse killed by a mouse trap, captioned "shit happens"

Just when he got released from copyright prison...

#mickeymouse #disney #mouse #mousetrap #shithappens #comedy #humour #satire #copyright #copyleft #anticapitalism

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Les "divagations artistiques" et recherches d'Antoine Moreau en Copyleft. Les amateurs d'art et de cryptographie apprécieront.
antoinemoreau.org
Plus de ressources sur www.libresites.org
#antoine_moreau #copyleft #cryptographie #œuvres #art #peut-être #art_libre

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版权主张测试
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RE: nostr.moe/notes/nevent1qvzqqqqqqyp...

#版权 #copyleft #copyright

Montajes 2025 Una vez más y como cada año, ¡muy agradecido con las compañías de  teatro que eligieron montar esta obra en el 2025! 21 montajes de  Mujeres...

"MUJERES DE ARENA"

Montajes 2025

21 montajes en 5 países: México, Colombia, España, Uruguay y Paraguay

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#dramaturgia #teatro #TeatroÚtil #TeatroDocumental #arte #cultura #copyleft

radio picture

In #FreeDownload archive.org/details/ardl... #FREE #radio #experimental #avantgarde #copythief #copyleft #plunderphonics #cutup #underground #experiment #symphony #postmusic #concrete #ConceptualArt #freemusic #ccmusic #creativecommons #harsh #noise #industrialmusic #postindustrial #antimusic

There should be an “internet buffet” for creators — huge libraries for combinatorics and remix work. Give broad access, and let people pay only for what they use. Scale fuels creativity; the remix isn’t theft, it’s artistry. We should enable those artists, not punish them for their work. #copyleft

#Copyleft is political and #FreeSoftware liberates:
www.draketo.de/politik/kommentare

Just found zbackup as a copyleft GNU GPL linux deduplicating backup solution for the @bce web page. ( https://bce.center )

Seems simple, fast and efficient. I've added it as a daily cron job, so we'll see how it goes after a few weeks.

#foss #backup #freesoftware #copyleft #zbackup #devops

It’s like sb was listening to me harping on missing the mix tapes (not so much LPs)! Mix tapes gave us the most wonderful form of practicing/experiencing copy*left* (not in the legal sense) but in the sense of curating and sharing in our most ordinary life, imho. 🙌@jasonclark.bsky.social #copyleft

#sound #peertopeer #p2p #copyleft #cc #netlabel #netscene #Romanian #electronica #music

It's #today in #Bucharest at the Goethe Institute. Expect lots of musical samples & snippets. If you're there don't miss the occasion.

Copyleft Won't Solve All Problems, Just Some of Them Toward a Broad Ethical Software Licensing CoalitionWe are passionate about and dedicated to the cause of software freedom and rights because proprietary software harmfully takes control of and agency in software away from users. In 2014, we started talking about FOSS as fundamental to “ethical software” (and, more broadly “ethical technology”) — which contrasts FOSS with the unethical behavior that Big Tech carries out with proprietary software. Some FOSS critics (circa 2018) coined the phrase “ethical source” — which outlined a new approach to these issues — based on the assumption that software freedom activists were inherently complicit in the bad behavior of Big Tech and other bad actors since the inception of FOSS. These folks argue that copyleft — the only form of software licensing that makes any effort to place ethical and moral requirements on FOSS redistributors/reusers — has fundamentally ignored the larger problems of society such as human rights abuses and unbridled capitalism. They propose new copyleft-like licenses, which, rather than focusing on the requirement of disclosure of source code, they instead use the mechanisms of copyleft to mandate behaviors in areas of ethics generally unrelated to software. For example, the Hippocratic License molds a copyleft clause into a generalized mechanism for imposing a more comprehensive moral code on software redistributors/re-users. In essence, they argue that copylefted software (such as software under the GPL) is unethical software. This criticism of copyleft reached crescendo in the last three weeks as pundits began to criticize FOSS licenses for failing to prohibit Putin from potentially using FOSS in his Ukrainian invasion or other bad acts.

@gedankenstuecke

This is a long read, but I think it has a much more coherent take on the idea of creating ethical, or political, and anti-capitalistic software licenses:

sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/17/copylef...

everything's better out of context, if the author's not dead I'll kill them and move time forward 75 years to forget them, your ideas are mine now because you didn't use them right.

#sorcery #copyleft #kopimi

everything's better out of context, if the author's not dead I'll kill them and move time forward 75 years to forget them, your ideas are mine now because you didn't use them right.

#sorcery #copyleft #kopimi

The Human Only Public License A copyleft software license that restricts AI usage

Human Only Public License:
🔗 vanderessen.com/posts/hopl/

📣 #AI, #copyLeft, #development, #HOPL, #HumanOnlyPublicLicense, #licensing, #LLM, #machineLearning, #noML, #software

Also available on Microsoft GitHub:
🔗 github.com/fvdsn/hopl

Stealing takes something away. Copying doesn’t. Yet copyright law often punishes duplication more harshly than theft. The harm is abstract, but the penalties are real—fines, jail, moral panic. If justice means proportionality, then duplicating a file shouldn’t cost someone their future. #Copyleft

I wonder if the copyleft licenses like the GNU GPLv3 are enough to stop things like LLM training off of code... do we need a modernized GPLv4?

#OpenSource #license #foss #floss #fosslaw #libre #gnu #fsf #gpl #gplv3 #github #PublicDomain #law #AISlop #aitrainingdata #antiai #aitrainingconcerns […]

Still stuck on the phase where I find a #copyleft anime girl to use as a background pic. For now I'll have to settle with @David Revoy 's Pepper, I guess?

backsite: core drivers. Five panes: - what are they: values we follow for the value itself, not as a tool for some other value. - example: a friend who wants Prestige may proof-read your first text for hours but still won’t recommend it to her friends. - ingame: limitations or difficulty for social skills. Recover from bad things. It’s easier to act in accordance with core drivers. - example: Even under a friend spell people don’t act against their core drivers. One who needs compliance with rules can go through hell to keep an oath. - Party Creation with Core Drivers: For each character place three dice on the fields on the backside. For non-humans use two dice and a note with a self-chosen keyword.

Icons for each of the core drivers: Prosperity Creativity Powerful Prestige Self-determination Influential Security Variety Modest Justice Tradition Caring Tolerance Conformity Enjoying Preservation Rule-Compliance Reliable

Party Creation with Core Drivers

https://www.1w6.org/english/core-drivers

* diverse core drivers with graphical examples
* strengthen your group dynamics through their conflicts
* a practical guide for deciding limits of social skills
* choose what gives […]

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