Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Licenses

The Future of GPLv3 Hangs in the Balance (sfconservancy.org)
SFC filed an amicus brief in the ongoing case of Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC, which is now appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Open Source, Law, Software Licenses
29 points by m463 8 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, Software Licenses, Venture Capital
5 points by ezekg 142 days ago | 3 comments
Please stop inventing new software licences (2020) (shkspr.mobi)
A few weeks ago, I received an unsolicited email inviting me to try out an exciting new " _quantum resistant_
Software Licenses, Open Source
133 points by edent 166 days ago | 172 comments