Hacker News with Generative AI: Licensing

Documind ripped our open source tool and swapped the license (ycombinator.com)
Saw a ShowHN post [0] today about an open source document extractor tool. I thought the workflow sounded pretty similar to our library, and only to realize it's a direct rip of Zerox [1].

Open Source, Software, Licensing, Copyright, Plagiarism

27 points by themanmaran 2 days ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs? (ycombinator.com)
I don't want my content to be harvested by LLMs; They are removing attribution, among other things. Otherwise, I'd like to stick as close as possible to the open source licenses (say MIT). Is there such a license out there? If not, anyone working on such a thing?

Open Source, Generative AI, Licensing

35 points by urlwolf 3 days ago | 18 comments

LICENSE.TXT [video] (youtube.com)

Software, Video, Open Source, Legal, Licensing

16 points by susam 10 days ago | 4 comments

Codeberg Reconsidering OSI License Approval in Terms of Use (codeberg.org)
As of today, Codeberg's Terms of Use (ToU) require repository contents to be licensed under a license approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) or the Open Source Initiative (OSI), as stated in the following two clauses (bolding mine):

Open Source, Software, Licensing, Codeberg

52 points by pabs3 25 days ago | 15 comments

GoLic, injects license into source code files (github.com/AbsaOSS)
GoLic, injects license into source code files

Go, Licensing, Software, Automation

28 points by kure256 26 days ago | 25 comments

Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 (github.com/bitwarden)
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

Open Source, Security, Software, Licensing

1014 points by ferbivore 27 days ago | 369 comments

Rider is now free for non-commercial use (jetbrains.com)

Software, Development Tools, Licensing

828 points by kretaceous 28 days ago | 422 comments

Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated (tomshardware.com)

Qualcomm, Arm, Antitrust, Licensing, Technology

5 points by dingi 28 days ago | 1 comments

WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (jetbrains.com)
We’re excited to announce a change in our licensing model that we believe will benefit the developer community – WebStorm and Rider are now free for non-commercial use!

Software, IDEs, Web Development, Licensing, Programming

92 points by yett 28 days ago | 58 comments

ARM's Chernobyl Moment (irrationalanalysis.substack.com)
ARM has decided to cancel Qualcomm’s architectural license.

ARM, Qualcomm, Technology, Licensing, Business

43 points by ezequiel-garzon 28 days ago | 15 comments

Qualcomm's V8 License, Cancelled by Arm [video] (youtube.com)

Qualcomm, Arm, Licensing, Semiconductors, Technology

4 points by locusm 28 days ago | 1 comments

Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license (bloomberg.com)
Arm Holdings Plc is canceling a license that allowed longtime partner Qualcomm Inc. to use Arm intellectual property to design chips, escalating a legal dispute over vital smartphone technology.

Arm, Qualcomm, Semiconductors, Licensing, Lawsuits

622 points by necubi 29 days ago | 450 comments

BuyOnceSoftware: Find all the software you can buy one time, and own forever (buyoncesoftware.com)

Software, Business, Licensing

4 points by thunderbong 30 days ago | 1 comments

Please do not write below the line (bbctvlicence.com)
I have been vexed for some time by the request at the bottom of each letter that I am not to write below the line.

BBC, Licensing, Humor

362 points by dcminter 31 days ago | 325 comments

AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips (theregister.com)
As AMD pushes to extend share of the datacenter CPU market, it's pushing CTOs to consider how many of their aging Intel systems can be condensed down to just one of its manycore chips.

AMD, Data Centers, Processors, Intel, Licensing

3 points by rntn 37 days ago | 0 comments

Steam purchases now clearly state you're just getting a license not ownership (gamingonlinux.com)
Doing the rounds across the net right now is a small update to the Steam checkout process when you're making a purchase, to make it clear you don't own what you buy.

Gaming, Steam, Licensing, Software

5 points by kaladin-jasnah 38 days ago | 0 comments

Unity Editor software terms update: Runtime fee cancellation (unity.com)

Unity, Software Updates, Licensing, Game Development, Business

40 points by vyrotek 42 days ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: How do you license a deep learning model for commercial usage (ycombinator.com)
I’ve been studying and developing my own deep learning model that serve a very niche market. I have acquired some interest clients that would love to buy the model including the final model weights, training pipeline. I’m pretty new to this field so I’m not sure where to begin on the commercial licenses. Any suggestions from HN would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Licensing, Business, Legal

6 points by thangngoc89 42 days ago | 5 comments

Source-Available Is Meaningless (keygen.sh)
We've seen it play out a hundred times: a VC-backed company launches a new "open source" project, and perhaps right away, or maybe later on, they license their project under what's known as a "source-available" license. Yet they still call it "open source" — a phenomenon known as "open washing."

Open Source, Licensing, Software

47 points by thunderbong 43 days ago | 73 comments

Gilead agrees to license twice-yearly HIV drug for poor countries (statnews.com)
In response to increased criticism of its pricing, Gilead Sciences has reached voluntary licensing deals with companies to make generic versions of its twice-yearly HIV medicine, lenacapavir, in 120 mostly low- and lower-middle-income countries.

HIV, Pharmaceuticals, Licensing, Healthcare, Global Health

14 points by divbzero 49 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Is Fair Source Cool Yet? (fss.cool)
Showing adoption of Fair Source licenses over time

Open Source, Licensing, Software

5 points by ezekg 55 days ago | 7 comments

Winamp contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL (github.com/WinampDesktop)
Winamp (the closed source product) contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL

Open Source, Software, Legal Issues, Licensing

18 points by mepian 56 days ago | 6 comments

Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license (github.com/WinampDesktop)
This License governs the use, modification, and distribution of the Winamp software.

Software, Open Source, Licensing, Music Players

44 points by ajdude 57 days ago | 11 comments

Google Cloud files complaint due to Microsoft's anti-competitive licensing (cloud.google.com)
Cloud-based computing is one of the most important developments in the European economy over the last decade. Moving to the cloud has reduced costs, delivered services with incredible reach, and laid the foundation for entirely new European companies. But legacy licensing practices that force customers onto a single vendor threaten Europe’s ability to take full advantage of this opportunity.

Cloud Computing, Competition, Licensing, Microsoft, Google

156 points by HieronymusBosch 57 days ago | 104 comments

Some startups going 'fair source' to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing (techcrunch.com)
With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s designed to bridge the open and proprietary worlds, replete with new definition, terminology, and governance model.

Open Source, Startups, Licensing, Software

46 points by pseudolus 59 days ago | 35 comments

Redis users considering alternatives after licensing move (theregister.com)
Around 70 percent of Redis users are considering alternatives after the database company made a shift away from permissive open source licensing.

Open Source, Licensing, Databases, Redis

42 points by ohjeez 61 days ago | 65 comments

There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish (csvbase.com)
They say that "90% of everything is crap". It seems to be true of open source licences, at least by volume. SPDX (a software package data standard) catalogues 665 of them. Probably, most shouldn't exist at all.

Open Source, Licensing, Software, Standards

44 points by qsantos 64 days ago | 21 comments

IBM Pushing Apache2 License onto all qiskit repositories on GitHub (ycombinator.com)

Open Source, Software, Licensing, IBM, Quantum Computing

18 points by spicywasabi 76 days ago | 4 comments

Star Wars walked away from the first self-retracting lightsaber toy (theverge.com)

Star Wars, Toys, Technology, Licensing

6 points by Tomte 82 days ago | 1 comments

Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely ma (2016) (archive.org)

Open Source, Licensing, Fair Use

22 points by todsacerdoti 88 days ago | 10 comments