http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/07/14/us-autonomo/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/07/14/us-autonomo/#comment-111914 FOSDEM 2012 Legal Issues DevRoom – Mike Linksvayer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:42:26 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/?p=537#comment-111914 [...] Michael Meeks on “Risks vs. Benefits on Copyright Assignment” made the case that assignment (and some non-assingment contributor agreements) is harmful to participation, and proprietary re-licensing has not proven a good business, so a corporate sponsored software project ought to either be free (sans assignment and potential for propreitary relicensing) or proprietary, and fully enjoy the benefits of one or the other, rather than neither. He also indicated that permissive licensing can be better than copyleft for a free software project with copyrights held by a corporation, as the former gives all effectively equal rights, while the latter abets proprietary relicensing and ridiculous claims that the corporate sponsor will protect the community. Meeks repeatedly called on the FSF to abandon assingment, as for-profits disingenuously cite FSF’s practice in support of their own (FSF ED John Sullivan responded that they are getting corrections made where FSF practice is inappropriately cited and will work on explaining their practice better). Finally, Meeks requested an “ALGPL” which would require sharing of modified sources used to provide a network service, like the AGPL, but allow modifications that only link to or the equivalent ALGPL codebase to not be shared. I don’t know whether he wants GPL or LGPL behavior if such modificaitons are distributed. I was somewhat chagrined (but understanding; just not enough time, and maybe nobody submitted a decent proposal) that this was the only1 discussion of network services! [...] [...] Michael Meeks on “Risks vs. Benefits on Copyright Assignment” made the case that assignment (and some non-assingment contributor agreements) is harmful to participation, and proprietary re-licensing has not proven a good business, so a corporate sponsored software project ought to either be free (sans assignment and potential for propreitary relicensing) or proprietary, and fully enjoy the benefits of one or the other, rather than neither. He also indicated that permissive licensing can be better than copyleft for a free software project with copyrights held by a corporation, as the former gives all effectively equal rights, while the latter abets proprietary relicensing and ridiculous claims that the corporate sponsor will protect the community. Meeks repeatedly called on the FSF to abandon assingment, as for-profits disingenuously cite FSF’s practice in support of their own (FSF ED John Sullivan responded that they are getting corrections made where FSF practice is inappropriately cited and will work on explaining their practice better). Finally, Meeks requested an “ALGPL” which would require sharing of modified sources used to provide a network service, like the AGPL, but allow modifications that only link to or the equivalent ALGPL codebase to not be shared. I don’t know whether he wants GPL or LGPL behavior if such modificaitons are distributed. I was somewhat chagrined (but understanding; just not enough time, and maybe nobody submitted a decent proposal) that this was the only1 discussion of network services! [...]

]]> http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/07/14/us-autonomo/#comment-100142 Free Software: Foundation for a Libre Planet « Mike Linksvayer Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:12:25 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/?p=537#comment-100142 [...] I’m really excited that the conference will have software freedom and network services as a major focus. This will be the first public conference on the topic, following last year’s meeting from which followed the Franklin Street Declaration and Autonomo.us. [...] [...] I’m really excited that the conference will have software freedom and network services as a major focus. This will be the first public conference on the topic, following last year’s meeting from which followed the Franklin Street Declaration and Autonomo.us. [...]

]]> http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/07/14/us-autonomo/#comment-99563 Mike Linksvayer » Google Chrome Comix PDF Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:56:07 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/?p=537#comment-99563 [...] Google Chrome looks really interesting. Given that the web is the interesting platform, more web client innovation is welcome, especially in open source web clients (but let’s not forget the servers). [...] [...] Google Chrome looks really interesting. Given that the web is the interesting platform, more web client innovation is welcome, especially in open source web clients (but let’s not forget the servers). [...]

]]> http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/07/14/us-autonomo/#comment-99545 Mike Linksvayer » HOWTO deploy and upgrade WordPress or any web application Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:29:09 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/?p=537#comment-99545 [...] I’ve mentioned several times in passing, such practices will facilitate open web applications and other network [...] [...] I’ve mentioned several times in passing, such practices will facilitate open web applications and other network [...]

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