commit: 67ad680e94064b156762c3882e910bff8b288529
parent aebfcbe4d0c056644670cec495087f110d470616
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:07:52 +0200
bookmarks: create Licensing section, add "Debian, Berkeley DB, and AGPLv3" & "SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL"
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1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bookmarks.xbel b/bookmarks.xbel
@@ -749,6 +749,30 @@
</folder>
<folder>
+ <title>Licensing</title>
+ <bookmark added="2024-01-19T16:12:21+01:00" href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/">
+ <title>Judge dismisses Vizio's call for summary judgment</title>
+ <desc>The Order echoes SFC arguments in court that the claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like SFC have standing to enforce the GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL — without any action by copyright holders of copylefted code.</desc>
+ </bookmark>
+ <bookmark added="2024-04-19T13:41:22+02:00" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formerly_open-source_or_free_software">
+ <title>List of formerly open-source or free software - Wikipedia</title>
+ <desc>Very much a list of shame, except for the continuation forks</desc>
+ </bookmark>
+ <!-- Saw it mentionned in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00250.html about AGPLv3 "prominently offer" clause -->
+ <bookmark added="2025-06-06T16:21:55+02:00" href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/bsd.html">
+ <title>The [Original] BSD License Problem</title>
+ <desc>"[…]the license used for BSD until 1999 had a special problem: the “obnoxious BSD advertising clause.” It said that every advertisement mentioning the software must include a particular sentence[…]"</desc>
+ </bookmark>
+ <bookmark added="2025-07-17T04:00:29+02:00" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/557820/">
+ <title>Debian, Berkeley DB, and AGPLv3</title>
+ <desc>Or effectively why most of the free software world keeps on using BerkleyDB 5.x instead of the later versions under AGPLv3+proprietary</desc>
+ </bookmark>
+ <bookmark added="2025-07-17T04:00:29+02:00" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/541981/">
+ <title>SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL</title>
+ </bookmark>
+ </folder>
+
+ <folder>
<title>Gentoo</title>
<bookmark added="2023-06-21T12:45:38+02:00" href="https://projects.gentoo.org/python/guide/"><title>Gentoo Python Guide</title></bookmark>
</folder>
@@ -906,10 +930,6 @@
<desc>Where in 2015 it was discovered that Xerox WorkCentre photocopiers were replacing numbers in documents due to lossy pattern-based image compression.</desc>
</bookmark>
<bookmark added="2024-01-17T23:35:36+01:00" href="https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/10/27/why-you-cant-trust-cpuid/"><title>Why you can’t trust CPUID - Chips and Cheese</title></bookmark>
- <bookmark added="2024-01-19T16:12:21+01:00" href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/">
- <title>Judge dismisses Vizio's call for summary judgment</title>
- <desc>The Order echoes SFC arguments in court that the claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like SFC have standing to enforce the GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL — without any action by copyright holders of copylefted code.</desc>
- </bookmark>
<bookmark added="2024-02-12T20:09:40+01:00" href="https://www.404media.co/taliban-shuts-down-queer-af-domain-breaking-mastodon-instance/">
<title>Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance</title>
<desc>For context: This domain was registered for fun</desc>
@@ -940,10 +960,6 @@
<title>Nous n'avons pas numérisé.</title>
<desc>"Nous, qui faisons des solutions numériques, nous n'avons pas compris que parfois, le papier fonctionne mieux que le numérique."</desc>
</bookmark>
- <bookmark added="2024-04-19T13:41:22+02:00" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formerly_open-source_or_free_software">
- <title>List of formerly open-source or free software - Wikipedia</title>
- <desc>Very much a list of shame, except for the continuation forks</desc>
- </bookmark>
<bookmark added="2024-04-22T22:18:21+02:00" href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/">
<title>NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth</title>
<desc>Where they changed Voyager 1 memory layout to account for a portion of memory being corrupted</desc>
@@ -989,11 +1005,6 @@
<bookmark added="2025-05-15T01:03:04+02:00" href="https://www.marginalia.nu/log/78-on-ai-veganism/">
<title>Thoughts on AI and AI-veganism</title>
</bookmark>
- <!-- Saw it mentionned in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00250.html about AGPLv3 "prominently offer" clause -->
- <bookmark added="2025-06-06T16:21:55+02:00" href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/bsd.html">
- <title>The [Original] BSD License Problem</title>
- <desc>"[…]the license used for BSD until 1999 had a special problem: the “obnoxious BSD advertising clause.” It said that every advertisement mentioning the software must include a particular sentence[…]"</desc>
- </bookmark>
<bookmark added="2025-06-08T08:22:10+02:00" href="https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html">
<title>Folklore: -2000 Lines Of Code</title>
<desc>It's hard to measure progress by lines of code</desc>
