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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 14 2018, @01:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the tilting-at-windmills dept.

Famed hardware hacker Bunnie Huang announces his newest project and goes into detail about how trouble from the DMCA was the impetus. He comments that unchecked power to license freedom of expression should not be trusted to corporate interests. The project, NeTV2, is being crowdfunded.

I'd like to share a project I'm working on that could have an impact on your future freedoms in the digital age. It's an open video development board I call NeTV2.

It's related to a lawsuit I've filed with the help of the EFF against the US government to reform Section 1201 of the DMCA. Currently, Section 1201 imbues media cartels with nearly unchecked power to prevent us from innovating and expressing ourselves, thus restricting our right to free speech.

At Boing Boing : Innovation should be legal; that's why I'm launching NeTV2


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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:06AM (1 child)

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:06AM (#679829) Journal

    Free association is alive and well with GPL. Nobody forces you to use it as part of your project.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:38PM (#680051)

    Both the GPL and Apache operate under free association. It's just that the GPL's set of free associations is smaller than that of Apache's.

    Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:

    The Apache License is permissive in that it does not require a derivative work of the software, or modifications to the original, to be distributed using the same license (unlike copyleft licenses – see comparison)[…] The Apache Software Foundation and the Free Software Foundation agree that the Apache License 2.0 is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL), meaning that code under GPL version 3 and Apache License 2.0 can be combined, as long as the resulting software is licensed under the GPL version 3.