#copyleft

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I learned today that because of the strong Moral Rights protection in the , it is not possible for Authors/Creators (defined as "natural persons" by law) to dedicate/release their work to the .

And even if we use 0BSD, MIT-0, CC0, and other similar public-domain-equivalent licenses, we can still sue anyone who:

1. Misused our name
2. Misrepresented us
3. Misused our work (downstream)

All under Moral Rights because we can never waived it under Philippine law. Even with a promise not to sue anyone is not a guarantee.

So, saying, "This work is under 0BSD/MIT-0/CC0 and I will never sue anyone for whatever reason", won't work under Philippine law. The Creator/Author will always have their Moral Rights as the creator/author of the work. It's completely up to you to trust that they will fulfill their promise. 🤪

https://linuxiac.com/copyleft-next-license-relaunches-with-new-backing-and-renewed-mission/

Copyleft‑Next has officially relaunched, led by longtime GPLv3 contributors Richard Fontana and Bradley Kuhn, with renewed support from the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Initially a side project started 13 years ago, it’s now backed by full‑time infrastructure: A Forgejo repo, mailing lists, and a website at copyleft.org.

The goal is to craft a modern, transparent strong‑copyleft license with active community input.

Today, @richardfontana & I restarted, relaunched, & revitalized copyleft-next.

All versions & variants of are great licenses. But, today, turned 18 years old & turned 34 years old.

At least once in a generation, needs a new approach to strong .

These posts have details: https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q2/000000.html & https://fedi.copyleft.org/@next/114769761806288554

I ask you to follow @next & check out our website at https://next.copyleft.org/.

FYI: I'll migrate this account to @bkuhn@copyleft.org later this week.

From: blenderdumbass . org

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_copyright_mentality

I want every program that’s required to participate productively in society to be

Because Free Software allows me to avoid direct remote control of what I can do. And it enables me to help others with my skills.

That’s why I think we need . Ideally the , because only that keeps webservices free. And those are programs, too.

(a discussion got me thinking why I contribute to FLOSS projects; besides wanting to share what I create, this is the reason)

Happy to have 3 talks about the Cyber Resilience Act in the legal and policy devroom, which I co-organise for

* The EU CRA and
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5291-the-eu-cra-and-copyleft/

* Legislative overlay: anticipating and navigating through regulatory vectors https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5325-legislative-overlay-anticipating-and-navigating-through-regulatory-vectors/

* CRA Q&A on Stewards under the Cyber Resilience Act https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6638-cra-q-a-on-open-source-stewards-under-the-cyber-resilience-act/