Post Asv5qD678S68dQtAS8 by chrisjrn@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #Asv5qD678S68dQtAS8 by chrisjrn@social.coop
       2025-04-08T17:33:20Z
       
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       I gave a talk at last month about the role of organising in Open Source. I have three obserpinions therefrom:1. Going all-in on permissive licensing was a mistake that directly led to extractive behaviour2. Copyleft not having a good answer to the actual concerns of people who chose permissive licensing was a mistake that directly led to people going all-in on permissive licensing3. It's too late to care about licensing, so we need other forms of consequences/ways to encourage organising
       
 (DIR) Post #Asv5qLo0l7xtdtUKzA by chrisjrn@social.coop
       2025-04-08T17:37:13Z
       
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       with that in mind, I will probably roll my eyes at you if you are advocating for a particular class of licence, except in the very narrow case of software that is absolutely necessary for a device to operate, in which case, copyleft is a good (if presently hobbled, pending SFC vs. Visio) proxy for disclosure of source code/right to repair
       
 (DIR) Post #Asv5qUdLw7mr1RZS7c by chrisjrn@social.coop
       2025-04-08T17:41:10Z
       
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       but advoacting for the necessity of one class of license over another?nope, it really really doesn't matter any more unless you have lawyers
       
 (DIR) Post #Asv5qd74PWJNJvXIYK by chrisjrn@social.coop
       2025-04-08T18:03:18Z
       
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       FURTHER POINTS:1. Invite me to give this talk somewhere else, it's good stuff, and it's much better in a 33-minute format than a toot on mastodon2. gosh it's amusing that early Django contribs are faving my original post, since I use Django as one of the litmus tests for how badly copyleft maximalists fucked up in the early '00s.