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Mateusz Mędrek (Luigi)Introducing React Native Legal 🧑‍⚖️ Zero config license generator for React Native apps.• Use in Expo apps with "react-native-legal" config plugin • Use in Community CLI projects with "legal-generate" command • Works with iOS, Android, tvOS and AndroidTV<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BuildInPublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BuildInPublic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reactnative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reactnative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a>

CodeFreezR (he/him)Vor Jahr und Tag (so ende 22) hatte ich das Pad zum Thema <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> Lizenzen für Freunde der der <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/HAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HAW</a> Hamburg zusammengestellt. Gestern hab ich das mal im Rahmen der neuen <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenResearch</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FOSSEAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSSEAM</a> Community mit einer DOI veröffentlicht. Schautmal:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977388" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977388</a>\__ <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSI</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FSF</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CC0" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CC0</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Licenses</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/EAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EAM</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CitizenScience</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenData</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/100DaysOfCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#100DaysOfCode</a>

tanteWho is Free Software for?For a while I have been arguing that maybe there are some issues with the whole “Open*” movements, their founding myths and ideologies (see for example my <a href="https://tante.cc/2025/02/06/a-luddite-criticism-of-open-source-at-fluconf/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">talk at Fluconf</a>). This criticism comes from a place of love. All the writing on this blog is licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CC-BY-SA</a> to allow others to take the texts and do something with it: I release my work under those conditions because I believe that we need strong and rich commons to flourish as a society but also as communities, groups and individuals. I’ve also been running my own personal systems (servers, my own laptops and a few other systems) on Linux for more than 20 years now. I am deeply embedded in the space of open culture but also Free and Open Source Software.This morning I made a bit of an off-hand remark that summarized a few thoughts going on in my head:<blockquote> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114097521958813659" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> </a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114097521958813659" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Post by </a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante" target="_blank">@tante</a> View on Mastodon </blockquote> People within the Open* movements have done the impossible, have created whole <a href="https://wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">encyclopedias</a>, the most successful and most used <a href="https://www.kernel.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">kernel</a> on the planet and a metric fuckton of custom, optimized operating systems, software libraries, and user facing programs. Have contributed to the commons to a degree that wouldn’t even have been credible within science fiction stories. Some of these systems – and I am not kidding here – should be considered the digital wonders of the world.So why have we not “won”? Wikipedia might be considered to have won: By now it is the default digital source of information for large parts of the planet when trying to get to mere facts. But Wikipedia is an outlier in that regard. Using <a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Statcounter’s metrics</a> Firefox – the Open Source browser that is not depending on what Google’s ad department wants to do – currently (March 2025) has a market share of 2.63%. And sure mobile platforms and Apple’s anti-competitive strategies when it comes to mobile have made it harder but even on desktops it’s just <a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">6.3%</a>. That’s absolutely not nothing, it’s millions of people. But not exactly something that shifts any sort of power and influence away from tech giants.Again using Statcounter, Linux has a desktop market share <a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">of about 4%</a>. Which is a lot given how hard the main competitors Microsoft and Apple are making the life of Linux developers and distribution builders. But still not even close to being an actually relevant player in the market for most purposes. Which everyone using Linux feels daily when asking for certain software vendors to release Linux versions of their stuff: “It’s not worth it.”I got a great response to the Mastodon post I embedded above:Link: <a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01JNEDT4T4F0PC137D45863N0S" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01JNEDT4T4F0PC137D45863N0S</a>First: R.L. Dane is completely right in their description about how “Open Source” is kind of the corporate version of “Free Software”. “Open Source” tried to strip the little politics that “Free Software” as a concept carried to make the whole scene more digestable to corporate entities (in any meaning of the word).Second: I believe that they also nailed who Free Software is for. Quote:<blockquote>What we call <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://tante.cc/tag/foss/" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> today was originally for hackers by hackers.R.L. Dane</blockquote>For hackers by hackers.And I am afraid that we haven’t moved enough past that mindset.That’s 100% not saying that nothing happened. A big deal has happened. Think of <a href="https://www.outreachy.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Outreachy</a> that tries to get more people from diverse backgrounds internships to work on open source and build a career in software. Think of <a href="https://pyladies.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">PyLadies</a> who have put in so much work to give more women the opportunity and a safer path towards becoming active contributors into the Python ecosystem. And there are so many, many activities like that. So much work so many technical communities put into making the path towards becoming a member easier, more inclusive, fairer, etc. Those activities are fundamentally about fulfilling the Open Source promise: To give everyone the ability to have control over the software they use and the tool to build upon what’s already there. Mission … not accomplished but on its way, right?But what are we doing? What are we trying to help “everyone” with?We are trying to give more people the opportunity to “become hackers”. So they can profit off of all this stuff built by hackers for hackers. This isn’t a project to free all of us, it’s a project to give everyone a degree of freedom if they join our club. If they assimilate. This is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Borg</a>-mode.We are not meeting people where they are. We expect them to come to us in order to understand why our values matter and are the best. Which – sorry to have to say so – they are not.In 1971 the black civil rights activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Fannie Lou Hamer</a> coined the phrase<blockquote>Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free.</blockquote>And we have not taken that to heard. Because it does not say “Nobody’s Free until everyone is like us and then we have tools to create some freedoms”. This is why so many outreach programs don’t work. Because what we are selling isn’t a solution to people’s actual problems but a new identity. And most people already got one of those. Now the solutions we propose might actually help our target audience with a real problem that they are faced with but so often our narratives don’t connect to their realities. We’re stuck in our own heads. Our own mechanisms and traditions.I keep realizing and feeling this being stuck whenever I talk about moving beyond Open Source and Licenses and all that. I get a lot of responses arguing for example that “if you restrict people to not use your software for war you are no longer compatible with Freedom 0 and are no longer Free Software” as if that mattered. Yeah sure, that’s the legal regiment we’ve built. And where has that got us? Are we happy here? Is that enough?Is me being able to customize my systems to my needs good enough? I recently changed a lot of my infrastructure to depend less on US companies and service providers for the simple reason that currently hosting stuff in the US (digitally but also physically) does not feel save. I can do that. Can my dad? My neighbors? Is that their fault?In motherfucking 2013 <a href="https://tante.cc/2013/05/20/host-your-own-is-cynical/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I wrote</a>:<blockquote><blockquote>Telling people to “host your own” when some big company closes or buys a service is very similar to the princess who, when learning that the peasants had no bread, said: “Let them eat cake.”Hosting your own is a solution for the gifted and wealthy few, for many it’s blatant cynicism.</blockquote>a younger tante in 2013</blockquote>I stand by that. We need to get out of our comfort zones and modes of operation. Need to move beyond the seemingly apolitical cyberspace of free licenses. We need to reshape our thinking towards more political goals and values. Maybe then non-hackers might also give a shit. Liked it? 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PrivacyDigestDOGE's Misplaced War on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SoftwareLicenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareLicenses</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> claims that a government agency has nearly three times as many <a href="https://mas.to/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> as employees. Experts say there are plenty of good reasons for that. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/license" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#license</a><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-software-license-cancel-federal-budget/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/doge-software-license-cancel-federal-budget/</a>

NelsonThe vore source code is here: <a href="https://git.j3s.sh/vore" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.j3s.sh/vore</a>It's under the NON-VIOLENT PUBLIC LICENSE v5:<a href="https://git.j3s.sh/vore/blob/main/LICENSE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.j3s.sh/vore/blob/main/LICENSE</a>I don't love this license. It's not open source, is it? While I definitely support nonviolence, I don't think a copyright license is the ideal way to promote nonviolence.This also worsens the problem of license proliferation, especially since it appears to be a family of licenses with different terms, not one license: <a href="https://git.pixie.town/thufie/npl-builder" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.pixie.town/thufie/npl-builder</a><a href="https://jawns.club/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a>

N-gated Hacker NewsIn this dazzling display of bandwidth wastage, we've assembled a collection of "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#open</a>-source" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> so painfully <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#niche</a> that even your pet goldfish 🐠 would yawn. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GitHub</a> proudly presents: a smorgasbord of legal mumbo-jumbo designed to make you question your life choices 🤔. Who needs practical code when you can drown in a sea of irrelevant <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/legalese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legalese</a>? 🤦‍♂️ <a href="https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bandwidth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bandwidth</a>-wastage <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coding</a>-mumbo-jumbo <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#life</a>-choices <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ngated</a>

Hacker NewsA compendium of "open-source" licenses — <a href="https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#open</a>-source <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compendium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#compendium</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licensing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GitHub</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#open</a>-source <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#community</a>

EricRogerGarcia[1]<a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> free and opensource, how to choose?For my project "PEngine", I would have to decide for a license before I can put it in a repository (I’m starting to use git localy)!.../...<a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#java</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#javascript</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/processing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#processing</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/p5js" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#p5js</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/programmation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programmation</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a>

EricRogerGarcia<a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> libres et opensource, comment choisir ?[1]Pour mon projet "PEngine", il faudrait que j'arrive à me décider pour une license avant de pouvoir le mettre dans un repository (je suis en train de commencer à utliser git en local) !.../...<a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#java</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#javascript</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/processing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#processing</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/p5js" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#p5js</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/programmation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programmation</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a>

hairylarryAlthough BSD is used more for servers than desktops I have discovered over the last week that BSD does support desktops fine, often using my favorite desktop, XFCE.Advantages to BSD are: it's actually Unix and it has a permissive license.The reason many large corporation use and support BSD is because of the permissive license. They can modify the code and distribute it without having to deal with the requirements of the GPL.It is what it is. History prevails.<a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bsd</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a>

मोक्ष / untrusem ⁂Does anyone well informed with <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freesoftware</a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> tell me how comparable to another licenses this is, it seems good.edit - The logo and name is also sick as hell, :mtg_black:<a href="https://codeberg.org/Coding-Liberation/COPL" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/Coding-Liberation/COPL</a><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a>

beSpacific<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/golf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#golf</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/resort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resort</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/liquor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#liquor</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> may be one reason he's fighting to block a no-jail hush-money sentence - its always about <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#money</a> and he's making it hand over fist thanks to the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> - wonder if any of his lawyers have or will be paid....he certainly now has the funds to do so with the $40M from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bezos</a> for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/melania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#melania</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentary</a> - the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/inauguration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inauguration</a> payment were just a tiny slice of how he is monetizing <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#power</a> to the detriment of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> won't block <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/sentencing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sentencing</a> ✔️

Björn SchießleGreat resource of training material arround <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> licensing by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FSFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FSFE</a>Maybe a good time to have a look before 2025 gets on full speed.<a href="https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/k3sTk7z1K73GkY1DgvtL5r" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/k3sTk7z1K73GkY1DgvtL5r</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a>

Free Software FoundationSome examples of what we've recently been working on: <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedom</a> in <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MachineLearning</a> applications; advising the US <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a> on machine learning; campaigning agains <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> and for <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/GNUlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNUlinux</a>; <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> Outreach Guide; expanding the FSF board; and educating about confusing <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a>. Learn more: <a href="https://www.fsf.org/appeal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fsf.org/appeal/</a>

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Yes… <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WhalingLicenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhalingLicenses</a>, in plural. For the first time in years, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MinkeWhales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MinkeWhales</a> will be hunted in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Iceland</a>, along with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FinWhales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FinWhales</a>. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BjarniBenediktsson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BjarniBenediktsson</a> who just lost the Icelandic election and has no <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mandate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mandate</a>, has issued whaling licenses for the next 5 years. This decision wasn’t supposed to be made now, with a review of Icelandic whaling <a href="https://mas.to/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> still ongoing. But he didn’t wait. These <a href="https://mas.to/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> benefit <a href="https://mas.to/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#companies</a> owned by his friends. It’s <a href="https://mas.to/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corruption</a> at its clearest.🐋

R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@artemissian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@artemissian</a>My understanding is that none of the OSI-recognized <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/licenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licenses</a> oblige you to provide any support or accept any patches."Attribution" is a more complex matter. The only thing most FOSS licenses require is that the software is licensed under the same license. There's generally not any kind of attribution clause. That's more like... politeness.

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