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Maryland suspends 20,000 drivers licenses per year because of unpaid child support. And how many does it suspend because of bad driving?
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/pol…

Maryland lawmakers scale back driver’s license suspensions for unpaid child support
The measure exempts Marylanders making at or 250% below the federal poverty guidelines.

🔴 #RedHat employees love to emphasize all the time that their software is #OpenSource. Yes, the code is public - but in professional usage, RH often prevents the use of their tools with other solutions where nothing is paid to RH through licenses and support structures. Sorry, …

Beijing Puts Six-Month Limit on Its Ease of Rare-Earth Export Licenses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/beijing-puts-six-month-limit-on-its-ease-of-rare-earth-export-licenses-ec8277ed
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p76#a250611p76

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Sources: Chinese diplomats agree to a six-month ease of rare-earth export licenses, with the earliest application approval within a week of the deal's signing (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/beijing-pu

Ich wurde gebeten, meine Infografik "Kultur einer Mensch-Maschine-Kollaboration gemeinsam einüben" unter einer creativecommons-Lizenz zur allgemeinen Verfügung zu stellen.
Sie ist jetzt lizensiert als CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/…

Help wanted: Can we get someone to go through the build/link time dependencies of ngscopeclient, identify every third-party open source library we use, and ensure that they're all credited properly in the documentation, and include/link to the text of the appropriate licenses?
https://github.com/ng…

Add full text of third party licenses as appropriate · Issue #22 · ngscopeclient/scopehal-docs
Section 2.4 mentions a bunch of third party libraries but doesn't actually include the license text.

"The Route to an Open Scholarly Ecosystem Runs through CC BY" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/route-to-open-scholarly-ecosystem-through-cc-by/

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/

Read through @…'s "signals" proposal and that's ... really weak.
Feels like it's just a bit of window dressing to keep to community busy while AI companies take everything they can find.
Like, why is that kind of signalling not part of the licenses? The promise of CC licenses was reuse by others (that is _people_…

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02817 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Open Source at a Crossroads: The Future of Licensing Driven by Monetization
The widespread adoption of open source libraries and frameworks can be attributed to their licensing. Open Source Software Licenses (OSS licenses) ensure that software can be sold or distributed as part of aggregate programs from various sources without requiring a royalty or fee. The quality of such code rivals that of commercial software, with open source libraries forming large parts of the supply chain for critical commercial systems in industry. Despite this, most open source projects rely…

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

I don’t object to giant vehicles on our roads. They serve important purposes.
Of course, obviously, just like (for example) semi trucks, they should require commercial licenses that come with an annual fee and a stringent certification process, and should be banned from most residential streets.
I’m sure any responsible truck owner would agree.
https://weird.autos/@Mark/114724601078279286

What could you at one of these #FieldDay sites do if you're not a ham?
Every site has people who would love to show you around. Many of them have a special Get On The Air (GOTA) radio set up just for people without licenses to try it out. Ours also has things like Morse code keys for people to play with, games for kids, walkie talkies to play with, a killer barbecue, and a fire engine!…

(wanted to write a bit about CC and open licenses and shit but I had minor surgery this morning so I probably can't get my thoughts in line. Let's hope tomorrow has fewer painkillers.)

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

Make your voices heard.
I also added something to a few bugs. @… really needs to go back to the drawing board and think about whose problems they are trying to solve. Because who is this proposal for? The only beneficiaries are AI companies.

We had a system crash last week with BSOD, a critical process died. Shoutout to #ubuntu for being able to boot off a live USB and copy the licenses and programs. Still sucks having to reset up, but better than losing everything.