With the recent news about Bambu Studio's AGPL violations, this advice on how to handle a protracted period of “incomplete-ccs” from a vendor is very much needed.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/may/17/incomplete-corresponding-source-code-copyleft-agpl/

#AGPLv3 #copyleft #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #BambuStudio #Bambu3d #GPLv3 #AGPL #GPL #SFC #Bambu #FOSS #licensing #copyright #DMCA

[quote] "The legal instrument protecting your rights as a user of Linux is less important than the commercial ecosystem built on top of it. And that commercial ecosystem as we have established is controlled by the same corporations paying a half a million dollars a year for board seats at the Linux Foundation. ... The message ... enforce the GPL, lose your friends ... violate it openly ... get a seat on the board ... The GPL is not dead but its enforcement mechanism has been systematically dismantled by the very organization that claims to steward it."

Linux Foundation has squelched the voice of the lay contributors and now corporations control the decision-making process.

Now that your contributions to GPL'd free software have created mega-millionaires and billionaires ... those same rich fat cats that profited from your free code now want to keep you from sharing your own free code or profiting from it while they violate the software license to cash in. They promote ideology campaigns employing useful idiots and ideological parrots to insulate themselves from criticism and hold themselves above reproach from the people they are exploiting to build their tech empire. The Linux Foundation has joined the empire.

I have said before that a new alternative operating system is required if software freedom and privacy are to survive. Linux is not the resistance against the system. Linux is the system.

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Full video for your earbuds: https://youtu.be/efDXFsUWk8U

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Our latest discussion builds on previous conversations, exploring the alleged corruption within the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds's potential awareness. We'll examine the intricate relationship between user space and the linux kernel developer, diving into how these components interact and influence the broader linux internals. This video aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the situation, explaining the nuances of these operating systems and the impact on open source software.

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#LinusTorvalds #Linux #LinuxFoundation #OperatingSystem #Corruption #BigTech #GPL #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Tech #Desktop

@fsf Is the GPL being defended?
#redhat #gpl

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Relicensing and license compatibility are two important aspects of how licensing works in the free software community: https://u.fsf.org/4b1 #GPL #copyleft

Relicensing and license compatibility are two important aspects of how licensing works in the free software community: https://u.fsf.org/4b1 #GPL #copyleft

Protecting the integrity of the (A)GPL is an essential component in protecting user freedom: https://u.fsf.org/4b2 #FreeSoftware #copyleft #GPL

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Protecting the integrity of the (A)GPL is an essential component in protecting user freedom: #FreeSoftware #copyleft #GPL

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Relicensing and license compatibility are two important aspects of how licensing works in the #FreeSoftware community: https://u.fsf.org/4b0 #GPL #copyleft

Happy thirty-sixth birthday to the #GNU #GPL, the fourth most-popular software license as of December 2025! https://u.fsf.org/1t2 #FreeSoftware

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SkiftOS : https://skiftos.org/

It's not a *NIX!

"skiftOS isn’t POSIX. It’s a fresh API and userland inspired by Plan 9, Haiku, and Fuchsia. Familiar ideas, different contracts."

Problem: the GPL is poison. It has polluted Linux and the Linux userland software so that only large corporations can afford to monetize it. BSD License or MIT License would be much better allowing small players to produce unique work without then being forced to share their source code with the AI hegemony racket.

#SkiftOS #Tech #Linux #OS #Plan9 #Haiku #Fuchsia #Computing #SoftwareFreedom #AIHegemony #GPL #License #BSD #MIT

Read about why GPL-compliant reasonable legal notices and author attributions matter in our latest article: https://u.fsf.org/4aa #GPL #GNU #FSF #FreeSoftware

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And remember, you're our marketing department, so please help us spread the word!

I'm thinking of abandoning the #GPL license from future code bases. I just can't find a clear statement from #FSF about the legality of LLMs trained on GPL code.

#oss #foss

@rootwyrm @david_chisnall @davidgerard @0xabad1dea @dougwade @zeyus yeah, and the gew cases of litigation in terms of enforcement backfired hard as well...

• Don't even get @landley started on the #BusyBox #GPLv2 enforcement...

That being said in #Germany said #GPL licenses get enforced by courts - as #Fritz! (nee #AVM) found out the hard way.

Snarky side quest, for anyone who's up to it:

Write a crawler to seek out every #GPL-licensed project on #GitHub, and submit an issue to each one stating that hosting on GitHub is not compatible with the GPL, since the code will be scraped and used to build #CoPilot crap.

@F3715H @mynameistillian@plush.city I mean the #SFLC / #SFC did start sueing vendory for #GPL #violations on behalf of #BusyBox - much to the dismay of (fmr. maintainer) @landley ...

Hey fedi, I'm considering making the EUPL v1.2 my default software license, anybody have a good reason why I shouldn't?

Note, I am only interested in copyleft licenses, so I'm not even considering things like Apache or MIT, but I'll gladly hear about problems it has that other copyleft licenses don't.

#EUPL #GPL #AGPL #copyright #SoftwareLicencing #licencing