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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/kirschner/statuses/113950515694027294">Matthias Kirschner (kirschner@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:58:25 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kirschner" title="kirschner@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/9821-48-20220912093739.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Matthias Kirschner" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Matthias Kirschner</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>Our sister organisation the <a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf">@fsf</a> has published its evaluation of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Llama" rel="tag">#Llama</a> 3.1 Community<br>License Agreement. </p><p>This is not a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a>) license. </p><p>Read more why it does not qualify <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/llama-3-1-community-license-is-not-a-free-software-license" rel="nofollow">https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/llama-3-1-community-license-is-not-a-free-software-license</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4547025#notice-8902064">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-12T00:58:25+09:00" title="Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:58:25 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kirschner/113950515694027294" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kirschner/113950515694027294">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4003838">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4118961">Text:     This is not a free software license.    It denies freedom 0: it imposes an “acceptable use policy” that prohibits a series of 25-odd uses.    Some of the uses listed in the policy are outrageous, some should be illegal, and some are already illegal in some places. There is, however, a crucial difference between prohibitions enacted by democratically controlled governments in the law and a private company dictating what we are allowed to do in our lives.    Additionally, the license excludes certain users—those whose programs or servers are very widely used. (See Sec. 2 titled “Additional Commercial Terms”). A free software license may not arbitrarily deny use of the program to anyone.    Another grave flaw in this license is that it requires a user to obey any and all laws—including trade regulations of other countries that have no way to enforce them on you in your country. This can have the effect of denying freedoms 2 and 3 in some cases. Even if a country cannot enforce its trade regulations where you live, it can ask the program's developer to sue you.
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Matthias Kirschner (kirschner@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:58:25 JSTMatthias Kirschner
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Our sister organisation the @fsf has published its evaluation of the #Llama 3.1 Community
License Agreement.
This is not a #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) license.
Read more why it does not qualify https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/llama-3-1-community-license-is-not-a-free-software-license
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2. Text: This is not a free software license. It denies freedom 0: it imposes an “acceptable use policy” that prohibits a series of 25-odd uses. Some of the uses listed in the policy are outrageous, some should be illegal, and some are already illegal in some places. There is, however, a crucial difference between prohibitions enacted by democratically controlled governments in the law and a private company dictating what we are allowed to do in our lives. Additionally, the license excludes certain users—those whose programs or servers are very widely used. (See Sec. 2 titled “Additional Commercial Terms”). A free software license may not arbitrarily deny use of the program to anyone. Another grave flaw in this license is that it requires a user to obey any and all laws—including trade regulations of other countries that have no way to enforce them on you in your country. This can have the effect of denying freedoms 2 and 3 in some cases. Even if a country cannot enforce its trade regulations where you live, it can ask the program's developer to sue you. ...
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