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In move that is presumably performative and for the benefit of JD Vance, the European Commission has also cancelled the AI Liability Act. Far from being "more regulation" this small law was going to harmonise AI liability across Europe and make it _more_ competitive, as Axel Voss eloquently explains here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/axel-voss-a1744969_ai-liability-directive-withdrawn-by-scrapping-activity-7295369439619743744-wMc9

The patent-telecoms-complex has been granted its wish and the move by the EU to regulate #patents embedded in #standards (#SEPs) has been killed. SEP holders prefer expensive and obscure litigation instead and were afraid the transparentcy would harm them so lobbied Council into submission.

https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/eu-commission-withdraws-sep-regulation/

This doesn't mean action is not required however. SEPs embedded in the standards we have to obey to comply with the law have got to go. https://opensource.org/blog/standards-and-the-presumption-of-conformity

Today #Bandcamp are donating 100% of their proceeds to LA fire relief. From my #BandcampFriday queue I have picked out:

* Great new-ish album by BADBADNOTGOOD, "Mid Spiral" https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/album/mid-spiral #jazz

* Re-issue of Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" in an expanded edition https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-expanded-edition #ambient #classic

* New album from Franz Ferdinand, "The Human Fear" https://franzferdinand.bandcamp.com/album/the-human-fear #pop

#music

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq5r6dtvee2ygyj36fn8h66k3ugk4d4n83l6cgcd7h3w46rrr2nhqqlfuwp2 Yes, although that point has been raised in the Reg 1025 review and I think may well get inspected.

Pleased to see the FSF is also taking the AI bubble seriously.

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-is-working-on-freedom-in-machine-learning-applications

#SoftwareFreedom #AI

There is a "town hall" meeting about the Open Source AI Definition today - I expect it will be the last before the release of v1.0.

https://opensource.org/events/open-source-ai-definition-town-hall-2024-10-18

#OpenSource #AI

> Therefore, in the interest of

> being more precise, we use

> the term “open foundation

> models” to refer to AI models

> with widely available weights.

CISA not saying "open source AI" until it is defined. Bravo.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/open-source-artificial-intelligence-dont-forget-lessons-open-source-software

#OpenSource #AI

If you are using Zapier be aware they are using your analytics, configuration and task data to train their #AI model.

https://zapier.com/legal/tos-update-faq

nostr:npub16mypueqzlm7vthsa6xhdqpen4w5vx3e25zs8fxh8x9dhs2je70qs9xh5k6 Facebook also creates and maintains significant open source software such as React https://github.com/facebook

XWiki SAS is a significant and successful company https://xwiki.com/en/company/who-we-are/

nostr:npub16mypueqzlm7vthsa6xhdqpen4w5vx3e25zs8fxh8x9dhs2je70qs9xh5k6 XWiki, Facebook are two examples at opposite ends of the scale but there are plenty of others.

nostr:npub16mypueqzlm7vthsa6xhdqpen4w5vx3e25zs8fxh8x9dhs2je70qs9xh5k6 Usually in response to pressure from a VC-appointed stakeholder who is offended by the idea of "freeloaders" using "his" software without adding to the (usually significant) existing profits. Successful open source companies make money with the software rather than from the software.

Replying to 7123e328...

nostr:npub1evueeq5nd8889t6hlpgssh3x45a2q4sv9trffrux3jssamshwecqrzuf5t nostr:npub1asgpw2tdqj8lf7hc9rvll65cpkamvh2y7v43xypme5ln083m48hq50p40g I see the huge risk to contributors with CLAs but how can a project reasonably switch/upgrade its license (e.g. GPL2->AGPL3) at some point in the future without them? Or am I overthinking this?

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Modern licenses have upgrade language in the license, and non-reciprocal licenses are readily co-licensable. It's only single company projects using strong copyleft licenses for a scareware strategy that really need the ability to pivot away from unwanted community members like this.

nostr:npub1asgpw2tdqj8lf7hc9rvll65cpkamvh2y7v43xypme5ln083m48hq50p40g

nostr:npub16mypueqzlm7vthsa6xhdqpen4w5vx3e25zs8fxh8x9dhs2je70qs9xh5k6 That's certainly what they hope you will think. But companies generally make this pivot for other reasons.

nostr:npub1asgpw2tdqj8lf7hc9rvll65cpkamvh2y7v43xypme5ln083m48hq50p40g Licenses that are used without a CLA are good, especially if they include copyleft provisions.