freeman

@freeman@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnlyOffice invokes AGPLv3, says Nextcloud must restore removed logos in Euro-Office fork⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Attribution is required by the (A)GPL and is standard in forks. What is not required is preserving branding and logos.

  For a good reason, those are often trademarks. Had they included them Only office would sue them for trademark violations.

  It’s a dishonest attempt to override the FOSS license.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AMD is a member of the HDMI consortium and is probably bound by private agreements to not make open source drivers without permission from the consortium. They did try to get them to budge but they didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

  Yes but the spirit of FOSS is clearly anti-copyright and a non copyright world would be preferable.

  You don’t get to just do whatever you please with someones work.

  The FOSS positions is that you should if you are not preventing that someone doing what he wants as well (or anybody else), which is the case with IP unlike real property.

  It’s also how the world has worked for millennia, copyright and other IP law is relatively new phenomenon and even in the time it has existed it has not been as well enforced or accepted by society as say the concept of physical property.

  AI is a great chance for commercial interests to push pro-copyright positions with a narrative of big bad tech corpos (absolutely true) vs little artist guy (bullshit, it’s big bad media corpos). I remember they tried to portray copyright and associated enforcement tooling (DMCA etc) as a solution to revenge porn, to rehabilitate it’s image.