Bradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn )

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Anthropomorphization Cedes Ground to Artificial Intelligence & LLM Ballyhoo

Copyleft-next Relaunched!

I Signed an OSI Board Agreement in Anticipation of Election Results

Repeated Mistakes Lead to Unfair OSI Elections

Candidacy for 2025 Open Source Initiative Elections

Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”

Eben Moglen & SFLC — abusive employer & LGBTQIA+ unfriendly

A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model

Federal Hearing about Rights under GPL

An Erroneous Preliminary Injunction Granted in Neo4j v. PureThink

One More Small Step Toward The Right to Software Repair

“Tivoization” & Your Right to Install Under Copyleft & GPL

Organizational Proliferation Is Not the Problem You Think It Is

Toward Copyleft Equality for All

Donate to Conservancy Before End of 2019!

Last Chance to Submit for 2020 FOSS License Policy Events

On the Controversial Events Regarding the Free Software Foundation and Richard M. Stallman

Chasing Quick Fixes To Sustainability

Delta Airlines Crosses One Line Too Far in Union Busting

Understanding LF's New “Community Bridge”

What Debian Does For Me

My Views on GNU Kind Communication Guidelines and Related Material

Toward Community-Oriented, Public & Transparent Copyleft Policy Planning

Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact

Challenges in Maintaining A Big Tent for Software Freedom

Software Freedom Ensures the True Software Commons

In Memoriam: Gervase Markham

When Meat Salespeople Call Vegans “fundamentalists”

On Avoiding Conflation of Political Speech and Hate Speech

The Everyday Sexism That I See In My Work

Supporting Conservancy Makes a Difference

Goodbye To Bob Chassell

Why GPL Compliance Education Materials Should Be Free as in Freedom

The Dystopia of Minority Report Needs Proprietary Software

Supporting Conservancy Makes a Difference

Conservancy's First GPL Enforcement Feedback Session

Help Send Conservancy to Embedded Linux Conference Europe

Two Blog Posts Disguised as Mailing List Posts

My Keynote at GUADEC 2016

Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Your Security Through Obscurity Kills People

Why You Should Speak At & Attend LinuxConf Australia

That “My Ears are Burning” Thing Is Definitely Apocryphal

MythWeb Confusing Error Message

The VMware Hearing and the Long Road Ahead

Kuhn's Paradox

Key Charities That Advance Software Freedom Are Worthy of Your Urgent Support

Sun, Oracle, Android, Google and JDK Copyleft FUD

A Requiem for Ian Murdock

Conservancy's Year In Review 2015

Fighting For Social Justice Is a Major Contribution to Society

Do You Like What I Do For a Living?

How Would Software Freedom Have Helped With VW?

The EPA Deserves Software Freedom, Too

Exercising Software Freedom in the Global Email System

Thoughts on Canonical, Ltd.'s Updated Ubuntu IP Policy

Opensource Com

Did You Actually Read the Lower Court's Decision?

John Oliver Falls For Software Patent Trade Association Messaging

Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?

The Satirized Is the Satirist, or Who Bought the “Journalists”?

Vote Karen Sandler for Red Hat's Women In Open Source Award

Trade Associations Are Never Neutral

Weirdness with hplip package in Debian wheezy

Toward Civil Behavior

Help Fund Open-Wash-Free Zones

Groupon retreats from claim on Gnome Foundation trademarks

Groupon Tried To Take GNOME's Name & Failed

Branding GNU Mailman Headers & Footers

Always Follow the Money

IRS Tax-Exempt Status & FaiF 0x4E

The LinkedIn Lawsuit Is a Step Forward But Doesn't Go Far Enough

Understanding Conservancy Through the GSoC Lens

Forking instead of fighting

Why The Kallithea Project Exists

USPTO Affirms Copyleft-ish Hack on Trademark

Node.js Removes Its CLA

Why Your Project Doesn't Need a Contributor Licensing Agreement

Resolving Weirdness In Thinkpad T60 Hotkeys

Be Sure to Comment on FCC's NPRM 14-28

To Serve Users

Federal Appeals Court Decision in Oracle v. Google

The Other Side of Openness: Licence Enforcement

Open Source as Last Resort

The Change in My Role at Conservancy

GCC, LLVM, Copyleft, Companies, and Non-Profits

Choosing Software Freedom Costs Money Sometimes

Considerations on a non-profit home for your project

HeadJS v1.0.3 Update

The Trade-offs of Unpaid Free Software Labor

HeadJS v1.0.2 Update

Canonical, Ltd.'s Trademark Aggression

Head.Responsive() v2.0.0-alpha

HeadJS v1.0.1 Update

HeadJS v1.0.0 Released

Using Perl PayPal API on Debian wheezy

The Dangers VC-Backed “Open Source”

My Comments on Oracle's relicense of Berkeley DB under AGPLv3

Congratulations to Harald Welte on Another One

Matthew Garrett on Mir

Wanted: A Free Accounting Application for Non-Profits

Migrating to Jekyll

The Punditocracy of Unelected Technocrats

SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL

Perl is Free Software's COBOL, and That's Ok!

The Symmetry of My UnAmerican McCarthyist Cancer

Who Ever Thought APIs Were Copyrightable, Anyway?

FOSDEM Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom

If You've Got a Problem With Me, Please Contact Me!

Left Wondering Why VideoLan Relicensed Some Code to LGPL

GPL Violations Are Still Pretty Common, You Know?

I Received a 2012 O'Reilly Open Source Award

NDC Sexist Presentation Shows Problem is Computing-Industry-Wide

Conservancy's Coordinated Compliance Efforts

Cutting Through The Anti-Copyleft Political Ruse

Some Basic Thoughts on GPL Enforcement

FaiFCast and Upcoming Talks

It May Be Boring, But Worth Reading Anyway

FaiFCast Release, and Submit to FOSDEM Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom

What's a Free Software Non-Profit For?

No, You Won't See Me on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google Plus, Google Hangouts, nor Skype

Just Ignore Him; He'll Go Away Eventually.

Last Four FaiF Episodes

Two FaiF Episodes

Desktop Summit 2011

Will Nokia Ever Realize Open Source Is Not a Panacea?

If Only They'd Actually Help Enforce GPL

Desktop Summit: Copyright assignments

You're Living in the Past, Dude!

GNU Emacs Developers Will Fix It; Please Calm Down

Project Harmony (and “Next Generation Contributor Agreements”) Considered Harmful

Identi.ca Weekly Summary

What's This …And the Rest Crap!?!

Identi.ca Weekly Summary

Welcome to Karen Sandler, New GNOME Foundation Executive Director

With GPLv3, Everything Old Can Be New Again

Identi.ca Weekly Summary

Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

Singling out OSS projects for FUD and profit

Bradley Kuhn: a life devoted to Free Software

Oracle spurns LibreOffice

Ditching Copyleft to Compete with a Fork?

Should a Power-User Key Mapping Change Be This Difficult?

Choosing A License

Clarification on Android, its (Lack of) Copyleft-ness, and GPL Enforcement

Germany Trip: Samba XP Keynote and LinuxTag Keynote

Samba XP Keynote, Jeremy's GPLv3 talk, & GPLv2/LGPLv3

Mono Developers Losing Jobs Isn't Good

Hopefully My Voice Will Hold Out

Questioning The Original Analysis On The Bionic Debate

Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution

The Slur “Open Core”: Toward More Diligent Analysis

Software Freedom Is Elementary, My Dear Watson.

Everyone in USA: Comment against ACTA today!

A Brief Tutorial on a Shared Git Repository

Free as in Freedom, Episode 0x07

Software Freedom Conservancy adds 25th member project

Conservancy Activity Summary, 2010-10-01 to 2010-12-31

In Defense of Bacon

Comments on Perens' Comments on Software Patents

Open Letter: Adopt RMS' CAA/CLA Suggested Texts

Does “Open Core” Actually Differ from Proprietary Relicensing?

Canonical, Ltd. Finally On Record: Seeking Open Core

Conservancy's First Blog Post

Two Thank-Yous

The Saga of Sun RPC

Considerations For FLOSS Hackers About Oracle vs. Google

GNOME Copyright Assignment Policy

May They Make Me Superfluous

Have To Is a Relative Phrase

Conservancy Default Judgment Against Westinghouse for GPL Violations

GUADEC 2010: Rate Conferences by Inspiration Value

More GPL Enforcement Progress

At Least Motorola Admits It

Proprietary Software Licensing Produces No New Value In Society

Reading The Bilski Tea Leaves

Post-Bilski Steps for Anti-Software-Patent Advocates

New Ground on Terminology Debate?

SouthEast Linux Fest 2010

Where Are The Bytes?

Beware of Proprietary Drift

First, we kill all the patent lawyers by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Launchpad Single Sign On Released

Proprietary Licenses Are Even Worse Than They Look

LibrePlanet 2010 Completes Its Orbit

Is Your Support of Copyleft Logically Consistent?

Ok, Be Afraid if Someone's Got a Voltmeter Hooked to Your CPU

Musings on Software Freedom for Mobile Devices

Thoughts on Jeremy's Sun/Oracle Analysis

SCALE 8x Highlights

Computer Science Education Benefits from FLOSS

The New Era of Big Company Forks

I Think I Just Got Patented.

Not All Copyright Assignment is Created Equal

Proud to Be a Member of GNOME Foundation

Back Home, with Debian!

GPL Enforcement Lawsuit in December 2009

Litigation filed against Various GPL Violators

Thanks for Rafael Rivera, an Excellent GPL Compliance Engineer

The Anatomy of a Modern GPL Violation

Finding One New GPL Violation Per Day

GPL Enforcement: Don't Jump to Conclusions, But Do Report Violations

Android/Linux's Future and Advancement of Mobile Software Freedom

The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done?

Software Freedom on Mobile Devices

“Open Core” Is the New Shareware

Denouncing vs. Advocating: In Defense of the Occasional Denouncement

Microsoft Releases GPL'd Software (Again): Does This Change Anything?

Microsoft violated the GPL

Microsoft Patent Aggression Continues Against Free Software

Linux Outlaws 102 - Goo/Linux

Considerations on Patents that Read on Language Infrastructure

Response to NTEN's Holly Ross' Anti-Software-Freedom Remarks

Support Your Friendly Neighborhood FLOSS Charities

Fork Well: It Could Be The Last, Best Hope for Community

TomTom/Microsoft: A Wake-Up Call for GPLv3 Migration

Neary on Copyright Assignment: Some Thoughts

Scale 7x Keynote Redux

SFLC Tech Director Wants To Liberate The Cloud

Sam Ramji Says GPL is challenging for Microsoft

Welcome (Finally!) to the GCC Runtime Library Exception

The GCC Runtime Library Exception

Launchpad's License Will Be AGPLv3

LGPL'ing of Qt Will Encourage More Software Freedom

SFLC's Kuhn Remains Skeptical of Ramji's Remarks

It's a Wonderful FLOSS!

One gpg --gen-key per Decade

The FLOSS License Drafter's Responsibility to the Community

AGPL Declared DFSG-Free

podjango: A Minimalist Django Application for Podcast Publishing

GPLv3/AGPLv3 Adoption: If It Happened Too Fast, I'd Be Worried

A Day to Focus on Software Freedom and Reject Proprietary Software

GPL, The 2-clause BSD of Network Services

GNU's Birthday

A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance

Compliance Advice Core-Dumped

If The Worst of Us Wins, The Best of Us Surely Will

When Will Hosting Sites Allow AGPLv3 Code?

Welte Receives Open Source Award for GPL Enforcement

Autonomo.us Computing

Like Twitter, but with Freedom Inside

Does This Mean We've “Made It” as a Social Cause?

Stop Obsessing and Just Do It: VoIP Encryption Is Easier than You Think

Linux Outlaws 40

Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom

The GPL is a Tool to Encourage Freedom, Not an End in Itself

A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects

When your apt-mirror is always downloading

apt-mirror and Other Caching for Debian/Ubuntu Repositories

Postfix Trick to Force Secondary MX to Deliver Locally

Apache 2.0 -> 2.2 LDAP Changes on Ubuntu

stet and AGPLv3

Linux Link Technology Show

Code Analysis of the Linux Wireless Team's ath5k Driver

Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project, Guidelines for Developers

More Xen Tricks

Virtually Reluctant

LUG Radio, Episode 78

Tools for Investigating Copyright Infringement

Walnut Hills, AP Computer Science, 1998-1999

Remember the Verbosity (A Brief Note)

User-Empowered Security via encfs

CP Technologies CP-UH-135 USB 2.0 Hub

IBM xSeries EZ Swap Hard Drive Trays

SCO Subpoenas the FSF

FSF raises doubts over two open source licences

On SCO, Global Free Software, and GPL Enforcement

Linux's Hit Men

Untested GPL may be at center of IBM-SCO suit

FSF raises doubts over two open source licences

SCO using scare tactics to get licensing fees

Microsoft licenses Unix technology from SCO

Focus on Software Piracy Problem

Microsoft licenses Unix technology from SCO

FSF Says LindowsOS moving toward GPL compliance

Kuhn advocates “GNU Age” of free software for computers

FSF asks Lindows, “Where's the source?”

GPL Enforcement Goes To Court For First Time In MySQL Case

Case to Test Principles Of Free Software Movement

Freedom or Power?

IBM Efforts Both Help, Hurt Free Software Initiative

Microsoft Has Tied the Valley's Hands

RTLinux, FSMLabs, and GPL Enforcement

Freedom or Power, Version 0

A Novel Approach for Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine

Microsoft Is Open to Open Source

The GNU GPL and the American Dream

JVM to .NET, I'm Not Dead Yet!

Considerations on Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine

Finished Thesis

Finished Thesis Document

Picking Up Perl

perljvm, Using B to Facilitate a Perl Port To the Java Virtual Machine

Who controls free software?

Crozzle, An NP-Complete Problem

A Simple Enabling Optimization for C++ Virtual Functions

The Decomposition Slice Display System

In Search of a Customizable and Uniform User Interface