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We now understand why permissive #licensing is bad for #FOSS.

#Redis taught us why #GPL is important and #MIT, #Apache, #BSD etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.

#Israel's use of #Lavender for targeting in #Gaza, which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable #genocide.

I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.


Apache Pekko has left the incubator phase and is now a top-level project.

https://lists.apache.org/thread/grl5h0l79oywnjtmfv0mdg3w108vsh6o

That's great news! Pekko was created as a Fork of Akka 2.6, right after Lightbend chose to pull a bait-and-switch by relicensing Akka to a non-FOSS license.

I have already switched to Pekko a few months ago, it went very smooth, and I am grateful to everybody involved in making this happen.

#opensource #pekko #akka #scala #java #licensing #apache #foss


Lots of understandable concern today as # # announced their new # availability today. Probably worth a reminder that @conservancy has convened a working group on #, #, and other related issues, especially for # and # contributors.

Perhaps you or others may want to join or read more?

Boosts welcome! :boost_requested:

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/feb/23/committee-ai-assisted-software-github-copilot/

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