Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Licenses

I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) (mendhak.com)
Dealing with open source software, I regularly encounter many kinds of licenses — MIT, Apache, BSD, GPL being the most prominent — and I’ve taken time out to read them. Of the many, the GNU General Public License (GPL) stands out the most. It reads like a letter to the reader rather than legalese, and feels quite in tune with the spirit of open source and software freedom.
Open Source, GPL, Software Licenses
778 points by ekiauhce 2 days ago | 551 comments
An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license (theregister.com)
An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license
Open Source, Law, Software Licenses
4 points by dmitrygr 56 days ago | 1 comments
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
30 points by m463 72 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 205 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 229 days ago | 172 comments