I suspect it means that, like the age verification requirement itself, no one really thought this through.

Only the open source versions, like Graphene.

IANAL.

So does this mean Android is exempt?

Hey... if they want to, they are welcome to release. I'll probably have a good laugh about it. I always wondered how much legacy bullshit they are still carrying.

They are simply splitting it into step 1 and step 2.

How long before microslop tries to insist it's actually open source?

Which means it is absolutely not about the children.

Yet another reason to not use windows.

Well, at least they're not being entirely stupid, just mostly.

Good one fam

Good one fam

Six seeeeven ...

the legally binding "Signed-off-by" tag, requiring instead a new "Assisted-by" tag

... is there something legal about signed off by tags? I thought it was just a chain of trust.

AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

And no copyright of their own. You can't copyright the output of an AI.

Any software created using this method is not protected by any copyright whatsoever and can be freely stolen by anyone else who wants it.

This is wild. I hate it with my whole being.

"We steal so you don't have to!"

Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

10+ years on Linux, absolutely worth it once you get the hang of it. Although it takes some time.

Nobody asked me about that. I've been contributing to projects for the past year more than ever. Gave up on my job in order to open a business, plenty of free time and I'm just grinding contributions, from gaming projects such as WoW emulators, to time trackers, network nodes, IDE plugins and libraries which needed small fixes.

Actually, ever since LLMs, pumping code for free is way way way more easier nowadays.

Some redundancy is useful because some moderators suck. So it’s good to have some moderation diversity. But 15 forums in the decentralised non-Cloudflare part of the fedi is a bit too much redundancy.

I was thinking about how there is not a single community specifically for the “public money → public code” movement that Italy initiated. The FSFE has a PMPC campaign. Not even the centralised big tech portion of the fedi (LW, sh.itjust.works, programming.dev, etc) has a community for that. And I think the PMPC principle has not spread outside of Europe.

OTOH, PMPC may be slightly too narrow to get much posting action. It’s disturbing that European govs push closed-source proprietary phone apps with trackers, but because they merely promote an existing program, it escapes PMPC applicability. PMPC only applies when the gov directly writes code. They can buy MS Windows licenses all they want.

So it might be useful to have a community that’s broadly focused on public (gov) divestment from non-free software. Though that would not be so specific to Europe.

*@europe.pub communities should be Europe focused. There are way too many general all-purpose instances in the fedi and precious few that have a constitution (in effect), whereby the instance is subject matter focused in some way.

Redundancy isn't necessarily a bad thing. But you might be right. Would you like to build that community here with an European focus?

Open source software is not dependent on country lines.

The discussion certainly can be if you define it that way.

Did you not notice you are on the europe.pub domain? Have a look at the landing page sidebar:

European hosted decentralized Network Welcome to Europe Pub! 🇪🇺

A social network dedicated to everything European. From culture and traditions to current events and daily life across our diverse continent. Share your experiences, discuss news, and connect with fellow Europeans and friends of Europe. …

Otherwise what’s the point in fracturing the topic? There are already 14 general FOSS communities in the decentralised free world (i.e. outside of Cloudflare):

• baraza.africa/c/foss “free and open”
• chachara.club/c/FOSS “SoftwareLibre”
• hilariouschaos.com/c/foss “FOSS”
• jlai.lu/c/opensource “[🔒] Open Source”
• lemmy.casasnow.noho.st/c/theopensourcecantina “The Open Source Cantina”
• lemmy.helvetet.eu/c/opensource “Open Source”
• lemmygrad.ml/c/foss “FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open-Source Software)”
• infosec.pub/c/foss “Free OpenSource Software ”
• diggita.com/c/opensource “Open Source Italia - Progetti Liberi”
• beehaw.org/c/foss “Free and Open Source Software”

OpenSource@europe.pub is rediculously redundant if not to bring a European focus.

Not restricted to European open source. Open source software is not dependent on country lines.

Oh sweet, I actually didn't know that. I've only dabbled and Arduino is where I landed. Forgive my knee-jerk reaction

There's things like the ESP32, and there's a bunch of RPi MCU based boards. There's actually enough competition that the non-arduino boards are often cheaper while being more powerful.