2026-04-18 When Bots go Bad — Automated DMCA Takedown Problems Within a few days we heard back from the (understandably unhappy) site owner, who explained that they were in fact the copyright holder. The takedown notification was issued by an agency working on his behalf, and their bot had mistakenly targeted the original author’s site.
2026-04-18 Judge dismisses Vizio's call for summary judgment 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.
2026-04-18 The [Original] BSD License Problem "[…]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[…]"
2026-04-18 Debian, Berkeley DB, and AGPLv3 Or effectively why most of the free software world keeps on using BerkleyDB 5.x instead of the later versions under AGPLv3+proprietary
2026-04-18 in this post, i rant about licensing Roughly afio IANAL license, with also state of FSF-Approved distros (which is mere reactive policy rather than proactive with audits)
