Bradley M. Kuhn

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

All versions & variants of #GPL are great licenses. But, today, #GPLv3 turned 18 years old & #GPLv2 turned 34 years old.

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

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

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

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

I am a candidate for the “Affiliate” seat in the 2025 #OpenSource Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors election.

I am running on a Shared Platform for OSI Reform with @richardfontana@mastodon.social

You can read that shared platform here: https://codeberg.org/OSI-Reform-Platform/platform#readme

I will post news and updates about the campaign here and on this blog post (that will be updated regularly until the voting closes):
https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/02/28/osi-board-election.html

I am migrating this fediverse account, @bkuhn@floss.social over to @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org
(aka to @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org from @bkuhn@floss.social ).

I've been reading up on fedi migration for a few weeks. As I understand it, it's non-trivial and "off book" to import old posts. So I'm doing the migration that will leave old posts here at floss.social.

The migration is now in progress; the instructions say wait a bit at the step I'm at now, so I'm waiting.

See you on the other side!

@fuzzychef@m6n.io wrote

[OSI is] using proprietary software to track the [license] review.

I'm flabbergasted at how many important volunteer opportunities at #OSI mandate proprietary software use. It's hard to avoid proprietary software in nonprofit management but FOSS nonprofits should make accommodations for staff & volunteers who refuse on ethical grounds. FOSS orgs mandating proprietary software is akin to an animal rights org requiring staff to eat meat for lunch.

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Reform-Platform/platform#item-4-directors-should-be-allowed-to-use-foss-for-board-activities

@liw@toot.liw.fi

As we mentioned in our post, I think discussion of
“Do FOSS licenses need a steward to succeed?” should probably be one of the first (if not, **the** first) issue we discuss after the relaunch.

Cc:
@richardfontana@mastodon.social @next@fedi.copyleft.org

@robin@social.riley.pub I'm sure you probably can't say publicly, but why does it *have* to be a California firm? IIUC, almost all accounting field certifications are national.

The CPA (auditor) I've worked with for years would surely have a list of good recs,, but they'd probably be NY-based.

I think you & I are talking on another matter next week, so remind me when we do that you have this question pending.

(Every once in a while, I love to pull back the curtain that there is always backchannels in FOSS)

@robin@social.riley.pub my mother was almost literally first in line to get that surgery when it became available & it did not work. She not only still needed corrective lenses but the doctor recommended she not wear contact lenses anymore (although she did sometimes anyway).

While this was decades ago and I'm sure the procedures are better, I still won't for anecdotal reasons.

All surgery has risks & a small percentage of failure rates.

IMO,it's OK to be arbitrary in risk analysis for elective surgery.