Post B0Vc0LmtilGh89Qrdw by andre_601@swiss.social
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(DIR) Post #B0VVR0mJF5ic6tvHxA by Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de
2025-11-22T00:25:11Z
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Every couple of months, a couple of us come together to write down what we've been working on behind the scenes. The last time we did that was June. There are many exciting things (for us, at least!) that have happened since; you can read all about them in the update that we are sharing with you today:https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-upwards.html
(DIR) Post #B0VVR1o7PqlBInmFPc by Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de
2025-11-22T00:33:16Z
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And since we're sharing background: Codeberg has a working group for matters involving Public Relationsāsome of us are deeply involved with Codeberg's day-to-day operations, others of us have experience in putting words together for projects and group efforts like ours. (Teamwork makes the dream work!)We did spend a lot of time on this update (and went over many details, which is why we're posting on here so late š).
(DIR) Post #B0Vc0JYI26OYCGaAb2 by andre_601@swiss.social
2025-11-22T13:56:40Z
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@Codeberg I just now was made aware of the ToS changes thanks to the blog post, and I must say that I'm opossed to Ā§2 (1) 1.The way it is written makes it seem like that we need to allow people to commercially use the content, even if we don't want that (And that licenses prohibiting that may not be acceptable by these terms).Of course I may misunderstand this now, but this just shows how vague the writing is, to allow such misunderstanding in the first place.
(DIR) Post #B0Vc0KnDQ5vc2qZbV2 by Gusted@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-22T14:02:55Z
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@andre_601This requirement is not new and was already there before, because no FSF/OSI allowed license disallows commercial usage of content.What did change is that the following kinds of work can be licensed to disallow commercial use:> As an exception to this requirement, works which primarily describe the personal opinions or experiences of the author, or which embody the unique personal creative spirit of the author, may be included in public repositories under a copyright licence which does not allow modification and/or commercial use, such as a Creative Commons licence with NC or ND restrictions@Codeberg
(DIR) Post #B0Vc0LmtilGh89Qrdw by andre_601@swiss.social
2025-11-22T14:04:52Z
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@Gusted Well, there still is the issue that the wording, at least for me, makes it sound like as if you have to allow people to use your work for commercial stuff, even if you don't want this.That's my primary issue with this.
(DIR) Post #B0Vc0MNlVgl6yUgJ6m by Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de
2025-11-22T14:48:14Z
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@andre_601 @Gusted Both "free software" (as defined by the FSF) and "open source" (as defined by the OSI) have explicit clauses that don't allow discrimination based on purpose. The FSF has "Freedom 0: The freedom to use the program for any purpose.", including commercial use. And the OSI definition includes "No discrimination between uses, including commercial use".
(DIR) Post #B0Vc0U1N6pbEfMGXJY by Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de
2025-11-22T14:48:29Z
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@andre_601 @Gusted So far our ToS were based on the FSF & OSI, so the commercial use was already implicitly required by the types of licenses we allowed in the past. The updated ToS have a carve-out under which we accept licenses that explicitly don't allow commercial use.