Notices by Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)

Pleased to see #Redis returning to an #OpenSource license.

https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

@dexter I don't believe @robin or I have a say in this one as neither of us is currently on the Board.

@bkuhn
While I certainly have strong views I will not be expressing them publicly while I am still an @osi contractor.

@dexter

One of my significant fears about the EU Cyber Resilience Act is that it could be abused by vendors to force DRM-like limitations into consumer products, as Synology is regrettably attempting. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/synology-could-bring-certified-drive-requirements-to-more-nas-devices/

One of my goals in engaging strongly over the CRA and especially its standards is to ensure that they are written to prevent this, as far as possible. We have now placed many #OpenSource experts into EU standards committees as a result. Can you help?

#CRA @EUCommission #DRM @osi

Don't be fooled by Meta's claims its Llama AI is open source. As well as its commercial restrictions, Meta's Llama 4 Acceptable Use Policy overrides the license & blocks software freedom rights to EU citizens.

AUP: "the rights ... are not being granted to you if you are an individual domiciled in, or a company with a principal place of business in, the European Union"

https://www.llama.com/llama4/use-policy/
https://www.llama.com/llama4/license/

#OpenSource? #NotOpenSource!

With the FTC and FCC gutted and no-one left to ensure the US end of the adequacy arrangement with the EU, surely it's time for the EU to ban data sharing with the USA?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/18/two-democratic-commissioners-fired-ftc/

The ISO/IEC lawsuit against the @EUCommission to undo the finding that we have a right to know all of the law that binds us is a threat to digital human rights. #Standards should serve humanity, not enrich private corporations.

https://circleid.com/posts/a-threat-to-europeas-digital-human-rights-stewardship

/cc @carlmalamud

@nparafe @kirschner @osi did post https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source and this revision seems to change nothing.

@nparafe OK, I'll investigate. But you can be confident that it's not an open source license.

@nparafe OSI posted this:
https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source

and I just posted this: https://meshed.cloud/@webmink/114025966275341199

@nparafe @osi Meta does not give OSI money, as far as I know. I would be interested to know the source of that allegation.

Meta may have announced #LlamaCon but the real Llama con is them continuing to call it #OpenSource. https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source

Is #OpenSource ever written with a hyphen? Not when it's used in connection with #SoftwareFreedom

https://opensource.org/blog/is-open-source-ever-hyphenated

Will Trump cause the EU to declare use of US #cloud services illegal for #privacy reasons?

https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal

All #OpenSource licenses are permissive.

https://meshedinsights.com/2021/01/27/all-open-source-licenses-are-permissive/

@craiggrannell I swear there is something deeply broken in the brains of many tech liberals that prevents them from seeing Zuck, Andreesen, etc for who they really are. C.f. Gruber's inane take on this.

@dneary Word processors are not the target for consumption of articles, so no.

Code is only speech if compilers are sentient.

@Edent
Mine took several days.

Whatever you do, don't say Lizz Truss "crashed the economy" as she claims saying it harms her reputation. Whatever that is...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/09/liz-truss-sends-legal-letter-ordering-starmer-to-stop-saying-she-crashed-economy