Hacker News with Generative AI: Licensing

Nokia Design Archive (aalto.fi)
Archive materials are subject to a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Please see HERE for attribution instructions.
FluentAssertions 8 has changed its license to a commercial model (github.com/fluentassertions)
Pluralsight unilaterally cancelling lifetime licenses (reddit.com)
“You know that lifetime license we gave you? Never mind.”
Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license (github.com/campsite)
This is an open source version of the Campsite app. This codebase is available as-is and is not actively maintained by the Campsite team. We will only consider pull requests and issues regarding self-hosting or critical fixes. The codebase is provided as a reference for those interested in learning how Campsite works. We welcome forks of this repository for use in non-commercial projects.
LLMs Are Directing Open Source Licensing (danb.me)
I’m often looking at the licensing of open source projects, either out of personal interest or while moderating posts to /r/opensource, and through this I’ve seen a recent trend of projects having something like this in their readme:
ScyllaDB – Why We're Moving to a Source Available License (scylladb.com)
ScyllaDB has decided to focus on a single release stream – ScyllaDB Enterprise. Starting with the ScyllaDB Enterprise 2025.1 release (ETA February 2025):
ScyllaDB moving to a source available license (scylladb.com)
ScyllaDB has decided to focus on a single release stream – ScyllaDB Enterprise. Starting with the ScyllaDB Enterprise 2025.1 release (ETA February 2025):
Arch Linux starts licensing PKGBUILDs (lwn.net)
Arch Linux is popular as a base for other Linux distributions; examples of Arch-derivatives include EndeavourOS, Manjaro, Parabola, and SteamOS.
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].
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?
LICENSE.TXT [video] (youtube.com)
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):
GoLic, injects license into source code files (github.com/AbsaOSS)
GoLic, injects license into source code files
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.
Rider is now free for non-commercial use (jetbrains.com)
Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated (tomshardware.com)
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!
ARM's Chernobyl Moment (irrationalanalysis.substack.com)
ARM has decided to cancel Qualcomm’s architectural license.
Qualcomm's V8 License, Cancelled by Arm [video] (youtube.com)
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.
BuyOnceSoftware: Find all the software you can buy one time, and own forever (buyoncesoftware.com)
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.
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.
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.
Unity Editor software terms update: Runtime fee cancellation (unity.com)
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.
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."
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.
Show HN: Is Fair Source Cool Yet? (fss.cool)
Showing adoption of Fair Source licenses over time
Winamp contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL (github.com/WinampDesktop)
Winamp (the closed source product) contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL