Notices by Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud), page 2

It's good that the European Union is advancing a balanced and necessary proposal to bring transparency to standard-essential patents. #Standards are rightly seen as a way to interoperability, but many people are unaware that an industry has been built around monetising patents that have been allowed to become embedded in those standards.

With that in mind, we have made some positive suggestions to improve the regulation.

https://blog.opensource.org/fixing-a-gap-in-the-sep-regulation/

#Policy #Patents #OpenSource @osi

The #NextCloud conference interviewed me after my keynote in Berlin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Y_Zcg2sDY

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@dirkriehle
I thought that was just for add-ons? I don't think they own enough of the copyright to change the license.

Microsoft is dropping MariaDB from Azure.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/mariadb/whats-happening-to-mariadb

#OpenSource #Database

#Standards that are incorporated into US law can't be paywalled.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-upholds-publicresourceorgs-right-post-public-laws-and-regulations

Another significant victory for @carlmalamud

@clacke @foss_north or maybe from the Github survey, I am unsure without going digging :-) https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2022/11/open-source-software-are-everywhere.html

@clacke @foss_north That is from the EU report
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/29effe73-2c2c-11ec-bd8e-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

@clacke
A well known author who should know better and I'm not linking to :)

@rsalz

@Suiseiseki
Do you have a citation or two for that last assertion please?

A US district court has confirmed the #Copyright Office position that #AI artwork is not copyrightable in the US, and granted summary dismissal of Thaler v Perlmutter.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.243956/gov.uscourts.dcd.243956.24.0.pdf

#GenAI

Seems #Zoom would rather we ignored section 10 of its Terms of Service and just read the nice marketing words on its blog.

https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/

I'll still go by the ToS thanks

https://the.webm.ink/not-using-zoom

I would have more patience for the argument that #OpenSource is dead were it not for the fact the people making the argument are benefiting from huge quantities of the stuff and would rather their customers didn't benefit the same #SoftwareFreedom

#Wikipedia is fighting a #SLAPP suit in Portugal where the appeals court seems so keen to rule for the rich plaintiff that it is filling in the arguments he forgot to make!

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/27/high-stakes-for-the-wikimedia-projects-in-portugal-fighting-a-strategic-lawsuit-against-public-participation-slapp/

The major #OpenSource #CMS
communities #Joomla #Wordpress #Typo3 and #Drupal have got together to tell the @EU_Commission how much the #CRA worries them despite their support for its goals.

"in their current form, the proposed regulations run the risk of reducing software security, as well as undermining the EU’s core aims and values"

https://www.joomla.org/announcements/general-news/5891-open-letter-foss-cms-cyber-resilience-act.html

A "just obey the law" clause in an #OpenSource (or wannabe) license is so pointless it's possibly just projection of the intent of the author to do otherwise...

https://the.webm.ink/just-obey-the-law

It's time for Europeans to start writing to their MEPs about the Cyber Resilience Act. It has recently been modified in a way that will be very harmful to #OpenSource projects.

This article from Github does a good job explaining the issues. Those first two issues are the ones that have been recently and intentionally introduced. Your MEP probably doesn't know and still thinks open source has been excluded from the scope.

https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/

#FOSS #FLOSS #CRA #SoftwareFreedom

If a #standard gains the force of law in Europe, it is not entitled to copyright protection and must be freely available. Massive.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-06/cp230110en.pdf

Well done @carlmalamud - again.

@Wolven @clarkesworld
Sadly not just Congress.
https://the.webm.ink/consulting-the-fourth-sector

It's good news that the European Commission is considering the value & needs of #OpenSource in its #policy deliberations, but the Commission needs to extend its consultations, Expert Groups and other work to include and consider the fourth sector.
https://the.webm.ink/consulting-the-fourth-sector

@RuiSeabra
I'd start here probably: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/