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martyb
on Sunday September 03 2017, @11:51AM
from the can-you-have-copyleft-without-copyright? dept.
from the can-you-have-copyleft-without-copyright? dept.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) provides a rebuttal, the supposed decline of copyleft, to assertions from Black Duck regarding the uptake of reciprocal versus non-reciprocal licenses. In the rebuttal, the FSF works to stem a cascade of articles and blogs which have proliferated based on some initial disinformation. While there does seem to be an increase in the use of non-reciprocal licensing in general there are several possible explanations and the rebuttal goes into detail and backs each possibility with data. In short, both styles of licensing are increasing in popularity
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(Score: 2) by andersjm on Sunday September 03 2017, @01:08PM (6 children)
Where's the link to the thing that this supposedly rebuts?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @01:37PM
Apparently it started here [redmonk.com], and was parroted with commentary here [opensource.com]; those links both come from TFA.
Note that despite TFS's implication, the FSF rebuttal is this 45-minute talk [debconf.org] at debconf17, and TFA is just LWN reporting on it.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @03:31PM (4 children)
> Where's the link to the thing that this supposedly rebuts?
It's not just one thing but it does spread mostly from just one company founded to create FUD about licensing and try to profit on that. A big component of the trouble has come from people that really should know better.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Immerman on Sunday September 03 2017, @05:10PM
I would venture a guess that they *do* know better, and that is precisely *why* they're spreading FUD - to undermine confidence in the competition.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @08:26PM (1 child)
Black Duck is Microsofties[1] whose business model is to convince you that FOSS is insecure and that, if you're going to run it, you need their whiz-bang closed-source software.
...in contrast to the M$ infection of the month^W week^W day and the backdoors in M$ stuff that Redmond has handed over to the NSA.
(as an occult part of the settlement of the USA vs M$ court case??)
Roy Schestowitz and his crew at TechRights is constantly busting Black Duck for one scam or another.
...as well as the "journalists" who reprint Black Duck's M$-friendly/FOSS-hostile claims without vetting those.
[1] Almost said former Microsofties, but there's no such thing.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Monday September 04 2017, @03:21AM
and the backdoors in M$ stuff that Redmond has handed over to the NSA.
I remember Ballmer saying something to that effect around 16 years ago after the Bush junta had ascended to power not long after they started to turn their attention to the antitrust case against M$. There were only a one or two articles mentioning it as an aside, and quietly at that, but from what I recall he was reported to have said something to the effect that it would be his (or M$) patriotic duty to put backdoors in software if called upon to do so. About a week and a half or two weeks later, the antitrust case was basically dropped in the US.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @08:12AM
You should really not diss our eds like this! I have recently found out they cannot take a joke. Oh, and they are mostly Nazi sympathizers, and Windows users, and so of course are in favor of Copyright. I will rip one hundred DVD's in their honor. Can't say which ones, or on what torrent you can find them, but just be assured, as sure as SoylentNews is not a conduit to illegal and very bad filesharing, I am not shitting you.