An employee of Cook/Jobs, @jensimmons, asks on a copylefted platform what she can do improve to #WebKit.

The answer is simple: Comply with the LGPLv2.1 —as your track record on that is abysmally poor. Participate with upstream projects rather than manipulating them so you can control them.

Employees of your company used to be forbidden from talking to FOSS communities. You've spent decades working against #copyleft. But you now follow Microsoft's plan to “embrace, extend, & extinguish” #FOSS.

Under v3, it's surely a violation,
@cwebber.

GPLv3 group is unique among #copyleft licenses in that “modify” is defined:
> ”To ‘modify’ a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in a fashion requiring copyright permission”

If you need copyright permission to add the REST API calls (which of course you do), then GPLv3§12 kicks in immediately if Chatgpt's license or ToS or TaC in *any* way contradict GPLv3's terms.

Bob's your uncle & you violate copyleft.

Cc: @suetanvil @jmax

@screwlisp @amszmidt

The beauty of #libre licensing, specifically the #Copyleft subset, is that the world doesn't have to depend on the behaviour of one company - others can fork the code. Examples of that happening abound. Not so with proprietary. I'm also not a fan of 'weak' #libre licenses, e.g. BSD & MIT, etc. And I revile software patents (see https://softwarepatents.org.nz)

@eduardoochs @kentpitman @dougmerritt @mdhughes

@screwlisp I'm familiar with neither anggtwu.net/#eev nor @eduardoochs I"m afraid.
@kentpitman

For what it's worth, I've made a career out of producing nothing but #libre (#Copyleft) software & providing related services... 31 years now. I'm against proprietary on principle: https://davelane.nz/proprietary

@dougmerritt @mdhughes

@carnage4life Good point & re: Brad Smith. His name is in the top five reasons why I stopped accepting "Brad" as my name circa 2001…I did not wanna share a name with the (then) General Counsel of $MSFT.

I think many don't realize that there is a *lawyer* (not a technologist) who has been President of Microsoft for years.

Brad Smith is also believed to be (we can't prove it — Microsoft state secrets) the mastermind behind the anti-#copyleft / anti-#GPL campaign of the early 2000s.

Cc: @liw

(*) in the late 1990s, I saw Henry Rollins do a spoken word live show at some dive venue in CIncinnati when I was in graduate school.

He opened the show by stating:

> “Hi, everyone. So, I want to let you know that my profession is now ’aging punk icon‘.”

I wonder if I should start opening my conference talks with

> Welcome. If this talk seems out of touch, you should know my profession is aging software freedom activist obsessed with #copyleft.

@resieguen die #GEMAvermutung wird von denen stets geflext, sofern #Kreative sich nicht mit #Klarnamen selbst-doxxen - selbst wenn diese nachweislich keine Mitglieder bei irgendeiner #Verwertungsgesellschafft und bei keinem #Verleger / #Plattenlabel / ... unter Vertrag sind.

• Gab dazu auch schon #Gerichtsurteile in #Deutschland wo dies bestätigt wurde!

Ich stelle mir die Frage was passiert wenn #Musiker*innen, #Komponist*innen u.ä. ihr Zeug explizit so lizensieren dass der #GEMA (und dem Rest der #Copyrightmafia) die #Lizensierung explizit verboten wird!

• IMHO gehört die GEMA-Vermutung (welche als Teil der #NS-#Kulturpolitik eingeführt wurde) ersatzlos gestrichen und verboten!

Auch stelle ich mir die Frage wie das mit nicht-deutschsprachigen / nicht in #Deutschland oder der #EU ansässigen #Musikschaffende|n aussieht.

• Müssen die im Zweifelsfalle per #Anwalt ne #Unterlassungserklärung an die GEMA schicken lassen???

@santi @mos_8502 @Wintermute_BBS well, as for #GPLv2 and license enforcement, using #copyleft as a bat to club corporations with isn't effective.

@landley still feels remorse for having started that with #BusyBox.

Not to mention #GPLv3 & #AGPLv3 really is bad unless one wants to commit "asset denial" aka. be an anticompetitive dickhead and at that point it's close to "asshole licensing" of #SSPL & #RSAL!

QR : la publication de ressources sur #wikipedia et #wikicommons ont nourri les #LLM : met du doute sur les contributions, sur la mise en place d'une licence #creativecommoms qui exclut l'#IA (mais pour quel effet ?), alors qu'il est nécessaire d'encore plus et mieux contribuer pour lutter contre l'extraction massive et nuisible.
Il faut imaginer une autre manière de vivre et partager le #numerique, mettre en avant le #copyleft, monnayer les extractions (assez peu faisable).