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by bkuhn 12y ago
Conservancy has three employees. I'm the only one who knows anything about CSS and web design. I know almost nothing about it: most of what I learned was net.searching to set up Conservancy's website and https://copyl
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by bkuhn 12y ago
I'm President of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity that provides a home for Open Source and Free Software projects. We've used Ledger-CLI since around mid-2008. We currently have 137,677 lines of AS
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by bkuhn 13y ago
To paraphrase the Lorax: "I am the GPL enforcer, I speak for the users". While you're correct that the copyleft is based on copyright, and thus the primary cause of action for a violation must be done by the copyright holder
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by bkuhn 13y ago
I've devoted most of my career to upholding the software freedom that the GPL ensures. I have worked with Rob Landley in the past who is mentioned on this thread. I think Rob has some facts wrong about BusyBox enforcement. The most
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by bkuhn 13y ago
@fontana, while I think Red Hat's Fedora CLA is better than most, I still think it's problematic that its fallback is a highly lax, permissive license, rather than "license of the project". I still don't understand
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by bkuhn 13y ago
Weird that my slides from almost three years ago got posted just a few days ago. :) I am glad some enjoyed them. My answer to most of the naysaying here would be simply to say that GPL is the Constitution of a Free Software community who c
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by bkuhn 14y ago
I was waiting for your reply and couldn't wait anymore. I have to work tomorrow, you see -- I work 7 days a week on Free Software, so I just can't stay up late. Anyway, I did hit reload one last time and saw your reply, but I assure you th
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by bkuhn 14y ago
In politics, it's very common to use phrasing like "he didn't chose his words wisely, but I agree with his point." as code for: "I'm diplomatically saying I agree with what he did". I see that the fellow didn't mean it that way, and there
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by bkuhn 14y ago
@jsthrowaway2, your analysis just doesn't take into account how that conversation evolved. We were discussing different issues in multiple subthreads all at the same time. In the subthread you mention, the fellow was initially coming acros
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by bkuhn 14y ago
@jspthrowaway2: You selectively quoted from the thread. You specifically leave out where @delvauxnic and I settled the miscommunication (I've quoted the rest below). I think it was disingenuous of you to selectively edit in that way. Not
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by bkuhn 14y ago
We already have these restrictions on us now; that joke in my post was in part to point this out. I know most of the Dead Kennedys songs verbatim. If I perform them publicly, it's copyright infringement already. If I write them down from
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by bkuhn 14y ago
(I'm the author of the article) I don't think of myself as a victim here. Indeed, Microsoft's attacks back in 2001 drove me to work hard and learn how to run a non-profit in a time when it's constantly under political attack. This has ser
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by bkuhn 14y ago
(BTW: I'm the author of the topic blog post) I've not seen it from the inside like the Samba developers have, but I do work closely with them. Based on that experience, I think the relationship between Samba and Microsoft is complicated.
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by bkuhn 15y ago
Kragen, I agree with most of what you’ve said about RMS. Specifically, I believe that pointless adherence to social norms can often make it difficult to fight for an important cause. However, your assumption about RMS and his relationships
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by bkuhn 16y ago
@rfontana, You should updated the SpaceWalk wiki to be clear. It still links to the old CLA. See: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/PatchProcess I am glad you changed the process, I'm going to update this.
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by bkuhn 16y ago
You're quite correct, the Open Core model (and, to some extent, the proprietary relicensing system as well) is made possible because of the way copyleft works. I've previously written that <a href=" http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/1