Notices tagged with gplv3
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 07:07:07 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} The #Matrix main organizations ( Vector Ltd / Element / Matrix Foundation ) are experiencing some financial issues and have laid off some employees. The blog post is at https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022/ [matrix org]
They note that they provide everything under permissive licenses and then wonder why giant corporations adopt their technology without giving anything back.
Well, that is something that MongoDB and some other no-SQL databases have had to deal with. Their userbase insists on permissive licenses, then the largest and most profitable users refuse to support the organizations that pay the developers. In many cases, the result is some custom non-free license (generally masquerading as “open source” but neither free software nor open source software) meant to extract money out of users who make money using the product.
Personally, I’d rather see #GPLv3 / #AGPLv3 without a “buy a commercial license to avoid responsibilities” plan going into widespread use, but that’s sure to greatly reduce revenues. It probably means paid support is the main funding model.
But anyway, I think that Matrix has done really well for something that is inherently inferior to #XMPP, but has a pretty face and good marketing team. -
jwildeboer (jwildeboer)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 10:08:54 UTC jwildeboer It is completely on-device only for the blocking part, so no data will leak to a 3rd party. It is #GPLv3 licensed and you can inspect the source code at https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios
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Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 14:16:39 UTC Free Software Foundation @SwapBhartiya writes how the incredible #BlackHole image is a major coup for #freesoftware and the #GNU #GPLv3: https://u.fsf.org/2sp -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 17:26:59 UTC Free Software Foundation @SwapBhartiya writes how the incredible #BlackHole image is a major coup for #freesoftware and the #GNU #GPLv3: https://u.fsf.org/2sp -
Andrew Miloradovsky (amiloradovsky)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 16:22:42 UTC Andrew Miloradovsky That is to say, companies, which release their tooling as "open-source" (to offload the burden of support on the "community") should push for strong copyleft before anyone else. And they should not be scared by the complexity of #GPLv3 or something: they deal with the legal system and complex terms all the time (unlike the individual employed developers).
Yet, they seem to release everything under BSD/MIT, why? -
binfalse (martin)'s status on Thursday, 27-Dec-2018 20:06:47 UTC binfalse my new "mobile" #phone comes with built-in #rj45!! ? :cupofcoffee:
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 03:48:16 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @stragu @bobjonkman I was wrong. iOS version is also #GPLv3 https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios/blob/develop/LICENSE ... I didn't think Apple allowed copyleft licenses. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 03:46:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @stragu @bobjonkman The Android app is #GPLv3 https://github.com/wireapp/wire-android/blob/master/LICENSE ... the iOS app will have a different license, as Apple is copyleft-hostile. -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2017 20:03:56 UTC Free Software Foundation Happy birthday to the #GPLv3! Ten years and going strong https://u.fsf.org/28z