Wondering where Markdown is coming from and how it became such a success? The piece helps answer those questions.
This is really a big problem that those companies created for Free Software communities. Due to the lack of regulation they're going around distributing copyright removal machines and profiting from them. They should have been barred from ingesting copyleft material in the first place.
Nice little post, indeed the license is not enough to base a decision on. You need to look at the business, presence of CLA or not, etc.
Indeed, if you benefit from Free Software you'd better engage with it. Maintainers should stop bending backwards to please free loaders.
This debate around licensing, politics and making our FOSS efforts sustainable need to happen. It looks like for now to some people the path forward is defensive licensing? I wish at least we'd first attempt to have more strong copyleft use...
Putting things in the public domain voluntarily is indeed more difficult than it should be. The best tool we got is CC0, but it still raises (probably unwarranted) concerns for software.
It's a piece which really resonates with me. I've been thinking and saying for a while that focusing mostly on the technical (licensing and dev) aspects of Open Source was a mistake. This completely overlooked the political side of the Free Software equation. This is why the industry is as it is now. We need stronger commons and indeed the AGPL is best for that.
Friendly reminder, if you're not paying authors of FOSS libraries, they owe you nothing.
An excellent piece about the links between collapse and complexity. Obviously focuses more on socio-economics systems. Still some of it applies to other fields.
Very interesting initiatives... I wonder what they will lead to legal wise.
The rebellion against the academic publishers is still going on. Hopefully this will really change soon. That cartel of publishers needs to go back to its rightful place.
Another very important common turns 25 this year. Happy birthday Internet Archive!
Interesting approach. Nice to see several coops and non-coops forge an alliance like this for a better all encompassing offering.
Very interesting approach using code of conducts to fill the gaps of the pure license approach limitations. Indeed focusing on licenses only lead to the Open Source movement which is so much business oriented that ethics is completely overcome (there's so much you can do with licenses after all). This proposals using code of conducts (internal + external) is thus interesting to make proper commons. The question of how much of a deterrent and defensible from free loaders this could be is still open though.