LibrePlanet Workshops and Everything Open 2023
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FSF Events: LibrePlanet workshop - May 1 - Metacartes: a free/libre toolbox to chart the course to an ethical digital by Lilian Ricaud and Mélanie Lacayrouze
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FSF Events: LibrePlanet workshop - April 24 - The immortal cookbook by Adam Monsen
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Jumping the licensing shark [Ed: GPL opportunists who slander the GPL's author for salaries like $250,000 per year]
The concept of copyleft is compelling in a lot of ways, at least for those who want to promote software freedom in the world. Bradley Kuhn is certainly one of those people and has long been working on various aspects of copyleft licensing and compliance, along with software freedom. He came to Everything Open 2023 to talk about copyleft, some of its history—and flaws—and to look toward the future of copyleft.
Kuhn began by saying that he spends much of his time these days thinking about the enforcement of GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1; "it turns out that those are the most widely used copyleft licenses in the world", thus they are the most frequently violated. It is sometimes painful to be looking at license text written in 1991 and 1993 as we move through 2023, but that is what he has to do. Outside of work, though, he has time to think about what sort of copyleft license he would draft if he were to do so. He was just out of high school when GPLv2 was released, so he did not participate in that process at all.