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#notlegaladvice

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When you're getting "the vibe" that you might be arguing with "the legal department" (of a large company) - state the facts, and DO NOT flesh it out!

1st: STATE THE FAKTS - only the fakts
2nd: shut up! DO NOT "express" your "wishes"! Legally, wishes mean NOTHING! …they're "wishes"!
3rd: shut up! DO NOT engage! If anything, copy and paste your previous reply!
4th: now might be the time time to contact a/your lawyer! 😅

#NotLegalAdvice!

Here's a thought experiment:

If a software license details the terms and conditions of the works it is applied to, then how do you license the license? And then how do you license the license licensing the license that's licensing the works, and so on?

On second thought, maybe this conundrum may have been argued in court, and I'm willing to bet (without checking) that you shouldn't license a license for this exact reason, possibly among other complications.

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@dynamic It has been a while since I had to deal with this, but yes, in principle it's income and it's up to you report it along with appropriate deductions. What the crowdfunding platform will vary but often if it's below a certain amount they won't report anything. Setting yourself up as a sole proprietorship in the US (unless you are using a business name other than your own name or if you want access to certain kinds of banking) beyond including the self employed income in your end of year filing. #notlegaladvice

Before anyone tries to pull a "Free Speech" card on it, #ImaneKhelif, the #Olympics, Algerian and French governments suing over #ElonMusk, #JKRowling, and #DonaldTrump calling her a "man" to scapegoat her into the anti-trans/anti-feminism political discourse isn't a case of "silencing political beliefs", it's a case of #libel and #slander. Not only have these been illegal and pretty much every society for as long as law was codified, but they have a basis protecting people from misinformation.

The best defense for a libel suit, of course, is to show a good enough reason that you would believe this #misinformation is the reality, to offset the potential harm you knew spreading it could do, but as the primary (incredibly wealthy and powerful) instigators of a piece of wild misinformation, they can't claim "someone else told me".

This will be interesting to see play out!

Fun Fact: “donation" is a specific legal term that is protected in many countries. Many people colloquially call any amount of money that you get without having to do something specific in return a “donation”. If you do that in public (e.g. on web sites or broadcast video like Twitch or YouTube) you get in trouble in most countries, because you must be an accredited charitable organization to be allowed to ask for donations.

You may, however, solicit tips in many places.

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Interestingly, all the people that say "#Copilot is violating my #Copyright!" and fanboy #BusyBox's hamfisted approach to #GPLv2 enforcement are really quiet when it comes to enforcing #GPLv2 against #RedHat or #grsecurity...

#NotLegalAdvice but maybe it's because only those that bought the final product are entitled to the #SourceCode and #learning isn't #CopyrightInfringement because otherwise we'd all be lifelong #DebtPeons to #Schoolbook- & #Textbook #authors or rather their Copyright-holding #publishers!

felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-co

Felix RedaGitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright

Someone asked "Why don't you use BusyBox?

Let me answer this simply...

1. #BusyBox's #Licensing page kinda makes them look #toxic...
busybox.net/license.html

And @landley went into great detail on why the whole "enforcement" backfired very hard:
youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3

2. #toybox on the other hand is very much a drop-in replacement and it's #0BSD licensed, so much less headaches...
landley.net/toybox/license.htm

So it was chosen for OS/1337:
github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob

3. We use unmodified source code as of today and thus can just link to the original sources and attribute them properly:
github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob

#NotLegalAdvice but AFAICS this is sufficient for compliance.

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