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**Thilo** @thilosch@mastodon.social · 1d

Commons, Not Conglomerates
Taxation can guide, not punish. Steuern steuern.

Proprietary IP → high tax
Permissive FLOSS → moderate tax
Copyleft/commons → near-zero tax + public support

And when you share while alive, society buys your freedom — castles, cars, and all.

This is the give economy.
Not charity. Incentivized solidarity.

Read the full post: https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/commons-not-conglomerates-variable-taxation-as-a-guide-toward-communal-stewardship/

educationZEN🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates: Variable Taxation as a Guide Toward Communal StewardshipIn a post-growth economy, we don’t abolish value — we redirect it. And one of the most powerful tools to do that is already in our hands: taxation. Not a...

#GiveEconomy #CommonsTransition #Copyleft

**Maria Chiara Pievatolo** @mcp@poliversity.it · May 19

May 19

Maria Chiara Pievatolo @mcp@poliversity.it

#OpenScience is not #freescience Perché #copyleft, diritto di ripubblicazione e contratti "trasformativi" sono cure solo palliative, talvolta ingegnose e talvolta no, per la servitù della ricerca, https://www.openaccessrepository.it/records/syh4s-bg962

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**Dave Lane** @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz · May 5

May 5

Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

@lwriemen @thelinuxEXP yes, I have some misgivings about OSI, too. And I'd also prefer that we didn't pander to corporate interests by using 'open source' over free or #libre software. I'm definitely of the #copyleft persuasion. To my mind, the only purpose of 'weak' open source licenses is to be easily exploitable by proprietary (corporate) interests. But, my ultimate goal is for any software not implementing *open standards* to be effectively eliminated by regulators. Let's ditch proprietary.

**Matt "msw" Wilson** @msw@mstdn.social · May 5

May 5

Matt "msw" Wilson @msw@mstdn.social

“The primary purpose of AGPL appears to be creating barriers for public cloud providers, which likely guarantees that major sponsors like Amazon and Google will continue to support Valkey.” - Vadim Tkachenko, Percona co-founder.

Respectfully, no. This is not the purpose or the reason.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #OSS

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**Scott Williams** @vwbusguy@mastodon.online · May 1 *

May 1 *

Scott Williams @vwbusguy@mastodon.online

And if you were hoping that the #copyleft from #AGPL would somehow prevent #Redis from relicensing back to SSPL or worse, you might want to read their #CLA, while remembering what #Hashicorp did:

https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/CONTRIBUTING.md

GitHubredis/CONTRIBUTING.md at unstable · redis/redisRedis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs,...

**Luke T. Shumaker** @lukeshu@social.coop · May 1

May 1

Luke T. Shumaker @lukeshu@social.coop

#Redis is #FreeSoftware again; specifically #AGPL !

https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/
https://antirez.com/news/151

Unclear what this means for the forks Valkey (BSD-3-Clause) and Redict (LGPL).

Redis · May 1Redis is now available under the the OSI-approved AGPLv3 open source license.The rise of hyperscalers like AWS and GCP has unlocked incredible speed and scale for startups and enterprises alike. But for companies rooted in open source, it has posed a fundamental challenge: how do you keep innovating and investing in OSS projects when cloud providers reap the profits and control the infrastructure without proportional contributions […]

#copyleft

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**Bradley M. Kuhn** @bkuhn@floss.social · May 1

May 1

Bradley M. Kuhn @bkuhn@floss.social

@jbqueru My key recommendation to #FOSS projects is to use a #copyleft license, but then also have both a strong Code of Conduct for contributors. & a pledge that indicates the project will not accept feature requests or support requests from unethical actors in other areas of endeavor.

The biggest problem isn't the FOSS license doesn't stop unrelated bad behavior by this horrible companies: it's that the FOSS community gladly gives them free-as-in-labor help to solve their issues.
Cc: @bekit

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**Strypey** @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · Apr 28

Apr 28

Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Fortunately some developers stepped up to fork the Simple apps under the name Fossify;

https://www.fossify.org/apps/

So we can still have that simple, pleasant app experience we know and love, with regular updates via F-Droid or our app manager of choice.

This is a textbook example of how Free Code licenses, which enshrine the software freedoms of the people who use software, can protect us from enshittification.

(3/3)

www.fossify.orgOur appsAstro description

#SoftwareFreedom #CopyLeft #FreeCode

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**Dave Lane** @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz · Apr 28 *

Apr 28 *

Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

@charlie_root @nigel for the record, I've made a 30 year career out of developing software. Neither I, nor my companies, have ever developed a single bit of proprietary software. I only make #libre software, almost all #copyleft. Here's my story if you're interested: https://davelane.nz/my-open-history

Dave Lane · May 11, 2015My Open HistoryThis is a story about the sort of "open" that matters to me, and how I got to this point.

**Jérôme Herbinet | FLOSS** @jerome_herbinet@pouet.chapril.org · Apr 27 *

Apr 27 *

Jérôme Herbinet | FLOSS @jerome_herbinet@pouet.chapril.org

Réflexion du jour : ne pensez-vous pas que les #LogicielsLibres (bien qu'imparfaits, car développés par des humains, eux-mêmes imparfaits) sont, de part leur ADN (grâce aux 4 libertés fondamentales ... d'autant plus lorsque la licence est #copyleft), considérablement plus à l'abri de la #merdification (terme souvent abordé des derniers temps) que les logiciels privateurs ?
Définition : https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merdification
#OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #GAFAM

58%Oui !
36%P’têt ben qu’oui
3%Non !
3%Pas d'avis (voir les résultats)

fr.m.wikipedia.orgMerdification — Wikipédia

**R.L. Dane** @rl_dane@polymaths.social · Apr 25

Apr 25

R.L. Dane @rl_dane@polymaths.social

#PSA:

Both #Linux the various #BSD projects are awesome #FOSS endeavors that deserve respect and curious investigation.

Both #CopyLeft and #Permissive licenses like the BSD/MIT/ISC have valid use cases.

Let's back away from the meme polemics and learn to respect everyone working towards freedom.

As you were.

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**Kevin Russell** @kevinrns@mstdn.social · Apr 18 *

Apr 18 *

Kevin Russell @kevinrns@mstdn.social

@davidrevoy

A tip of the hat for your generosity and talent. A big grin.

I was recently impressed and moved by David Revoy's Darwin on another post, and today I discover he has released it and many more into the Creative Commons.

Thank you.

Charles Darwin by David Revoy, a bust portrait with much of rhe face and beard represented by creatures

#cc #creativeCommons #copyleft

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**h o ʍ l e t t** @homlett@mamot.fr · Apr 16

Apr 16

h o ʍ l e t t @homlett@mamot.fr

@nuddlegg Finally, it may also be worth discussing the benefits of restricting knowledge and considering that any published work is, by definition, public so refraining from its uses or diffusion may be pointless ultimately. Basically, #noai versus #copyleft.

Curious to read your thoughts about this.

**Resl** @resl@mas.to · Apr 14

Apr 14

Resl @resl@mas.to

OK! I was finally able to ask Yanis Varoufakis if he knows copyleft and the free software movement are behind him and if he'll work more with the EFF to push for public ownership of "the cloud".

I really want him to see and use the power of copyleft in his strategies with DiEM25 and the Progressive International. Neither group is much in the #Fediverse yet, I've noticed. But the political infrastructure exists!

#FreeSoftware #geopolitics #economics

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**Hacker** @Fedihacker@masto.es · Apr 7 *

Apr 7 *

Hacker @Fedihacker@masto.es

@slashdot The three knights of the apocalypse.

#SteveBallmer was one of the worst things that happened to the software industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer#Free_and_open_source_software

"He maintained that his comments in 2001 were right at the time but that times have changed."

Not thanks to him. And #Microsoft does not use #Copyleft licenses in their works, like most corporations, including #Google.

Had it not been a monopoly, Microsoft would have disappeared.

en.wikipedia.orgSteve Ballmer - Wikipedia

**Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )** @blenderdumbass@mastodon.online · Mar 29

Mar 29

Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) @blenderdumbass@mastodon.online

From: blenderdumbass . org

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_copyright_mentality

blenderdumbass . orgThe Copyright Mentality

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