Updates tagged with opensource on stadeus!
: Dear Creative Commons (@creativecommons.org @creativecommons@mastodon.social @creativecommons@x.com), Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial?My previous post¹ reminded me that I’ve been creating, writing, inventing, and then sharing things with #CreativeCommons (CC) #licenses for a long time (I have to see if I can dig up my first use of CC licenses.)I’ve used and recommended a variety of CC licenses for decades, e.g.* CC0 — for standards work, e.g. I drove and wrote up https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards/licensing (with help from lawyers)* CC-BY — aforementioned blog post (and other snippets of #openSource)* CC-BY-NC — photos on Flickr (dozens of which have been used in publications²)* CC-SA — for CASSIS³, which I still consider experimental enough that I chose "share-alike" to deliberately slow its spread, and hopefully reduce mutations (while allowing ports of its functions to other languages)So I have some idea of what I’m talking about.There have been LOTS of discussions of the challenges, downsides, and disagreements with sweeping use of copyrighted content to train generated artificial intelligence AKA #genAI software and services, sometimes also called #machineLearning. The most common examples being Large Language Models AKA #LLM, but also models for generating images and video. Smart, intelligent, and well-intentioned people disagree on who has rights to do what, or even who should do what in this regard.There have been many proposals for new standards, or updates to existing standards like robots.txt etc. but I have not really seen them make noticeable progress. There are also lots of techniques published that attempt to block the spiders and bots being used to crawl and collect content for GenAI, an arms race that ends up damaging well-established popular uses such as web search engines (or making it harder to build a new one).The brilliant innovation of Creative Commons was to look at the use-cases and intentions of creators publishing on the web in the 2000s and capture them in a small handful of clear licenses with human readable summaries.Creatives are clamoring for a simple way to opt-out of their publicly published content from being used to train GenAI. New Creative Commons licenses solve this.This seems like an obvious thing to me. If you can write a license that forbids “commercial use”, then you should be able to write a license that forbids use in “training models”, which respectful / well-written crawlers should (hopefully) respect, in as much as they respect existing CC licenses.I saw that Creative Commons published a position paper⁴ for for an IETF workshop on this topic, and it unfortunately in my opinion has an overly cautious and pessimistic (outright conservative one could say) outlook, one that frankly I believe the founders of Creative Commons (who dared to boldly create something new) would probably be disappointed in.First, there is no Creative Commons license on the Creative Commons position paper. Why?Second, there are no names of authors on the Creative Commons position paper. Why?Lots of people similarly (to the position paper) said the original Creative Commons licenses were a bad idea, or would not be used, or would be ignored, or would otherwise not work as intended. They were wrong.If I were a lawyer I would fork those existing licenses and produce such “CC-NT” (for “no-training”) variants (though likely prefix them with something else since "CC" means Creative Commons) just to show it could be done, a proof of concept as it were that creators could use.Or perhaps a few of us could collect funds to pay an intellectual property lawyer to do so, and of course donate all the work produced to the commons, so that Creative Commons (or someone else) could take it, re-use it, build upon it.Someone needs to take such a bold step, just as Creative Commons itself took a bold step when they dared to create portable re-usable content licenses that any creator could use (a huge innovation at the time, for content, inspired in no doubt by portable re-usable open source licenses⁵).References:¹ https://tantek.com/2024/263/t1/20-years-undohtml-css-resets² https://flickr.com/search/?user_id=tantek&tags=press&view_all=1³ https://tantek.com/github/cassis⁴ Creative Commons Position Paper on Preference Signals, https://www.ietf.org/slides/slides-aicontrolws-creative-commons-position-paper-on-preference-signals-00.pdf⁵ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses
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Dear Creative Commons (@creativecommons.org @creativecommons@mastodon.social @creativecommons@x.com), Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial? My previous post¹ reminded me that I’ve been creating, writing, inventing, and then sharing things with #CreativeCommons (CC) #licenses for a long time (I have to see if I can dig up my first use of CC licenses.) I’ve used and recommended a variety of CC licenses for decades, e.g. * CC0 — for standards work, e.g. I drove and wrote up https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards/licensing (with help from lawyers) * CC-BY — aforementioned blog post (and other snippets of #openSource) * CC-BY-NC — photos on Flickr (dozens of which have been used in publications²) * CC-SA — for CASSIS³, which I still consider experimental enough that I chose "share-alike" to deliberately slow its spread, and hopefully reduce mutations (while allowing ports of its functions to other languages) So I have some idea of what I’m talking about. There have been LOTS of discussions of the challenges, downsides, and disagreements with sweeping use of copyrighted content to train generated artificial intelligence AKA #genAI software and services, sometimes also called #machineLearning. The most common examples being Large Language Models AKA #LLM, but also models for generating images and video. Smart, intelligent, and well-intentioned people disagree on who has rights to do what, or even who should do what in this regard. There have been many proposals for new standards, or updates to existing standards like robots.txt etc. but I have not really seen them make noticeable progress. There are also lots of techniques published that attempt to block the spiders and bots being used to crawl and collect content for GenAI, an arms race that ends up damaging well-established popular uses such as web search engines (or making it harder to build a new one). The brilliant innovation of Creative Commons was to look at the use-cases and intentions of creators publishing on the web in the 2000s and capture them in a small handful of clear licenses with human readable summaries. Creatives are clamoring for a simple way to opt-out of their publicly published content from being used to train GenAI. New Creative Commons licenses solve this. This seems like an obvious thing to me. If you can write a license that forbids “commercial use”, then you should be able to write a license that forbids use in “training models”, which respectful / well-written crawlers should (hopefully) respect, in as much as they respect existing CC licenses. I saw that Creative Commons published a position paper⁴ for for an IETF workshop on this topic, and it unfortunately in my opinion has an overly cautious and pessimistic (outright conservative one could say) outlook, one that frankly I believe the founders of Creative Commons (who dared to boldly create something new) would probably be disappointed in. First, there is no Creative Commons license on the Creative Commons position paper. Why? Second, there are no names of authors on the Creative Commons position paper. Why? Lots of people similarly (to the position paper) said the original Creative Commons licenses were a bad idea, or would not be used, or would be ignored, or would otherwise not work as intended. They were wrong. If I were a lawyer I would fork those existing licenses and produce such “CC-NT” (for “no-training”) variants (though likely prefix them with something else since "CC" means Creative Commons) just to show it could be done, a proof of concept as it were that creators could use. Or perhaps a few of us could collect funds to pay an intellectual property lawyer to do so, and of course donate all the work produced to the commons, so that Creative Commons (or someone else) could take it, re-use it, build upon it. Someone needs to take such a bold step, just as Creative Commons itself took a bold step when they dared to create portable re-usable content licenses that any creator could use (a huge innovation at the time, for content, inspired in no doubt by portable re-usable open source licenses⁵). References: ¹ https://tantek.com/2024/263/t1/20-years-undohtml-css-resets ² https://flickr.com/search/?user_id=tantek&tags=press&view_all=1 ³ https://tantek.com/github/cassis ⁴ Creative Commons Position Paper on Preference Signals, https://www.ietf.org/slides/slides-aicontrolws-creative-commons-position-paper-on-preference-signals-00.pdf ⁵ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses
minetest: #introductionsMinetest is an open-source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server. https://www.minetest.net/Minetest has a very active community of players, modders, and game designers, and a large amount of content available: https://content.minetest.net/This account is managed by @rubenwardy, a core developer.#minetest #opensource #gamedev
minetest's status on Wednesday, 23-Jan-2019 18:40:50 EST
#introductions Minetest is an open-source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server. https://www.minetest.net/ Minetest has a very active community of players, modders, and game designers, and a large amount of content available: https://content.minetest.net/ This account is managed by @rubenwardy, a core developer. #minetest #opensource #gamedev
dmaphy: Just used F-Droid to install G-Droid. And that's basically everything you need to know about the concept of #freesoftware. #opensource #freeyourandroid #fsfe
dmaphy's status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-2018 16:45:59 EST
Just used F-Droid to install G-Droid. And that's basically everything you need to know about the concept of #freesoftware. #opensource #freeyourandroid #fsfe
lps: Let's make the Web free again, support open standards/protocols and decentralize everything. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."R. Buckminster Fuller @peertube @pixelfed @Gargron @framasoft https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/07/11/royalty-free-web-video-codecs/#opensource #codecs #freesoftware #mozilla #buckminsterfuller #quotes
lps's status on Friday, 13-Jul-2018 22:03:19 EDT
Let's make the Web free again, support open standards/protocols and decentralize everything. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." R. Buckminster Fuller @peertube @pixelfed @Gargron @framasoft https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/07/11/royalty-free-web-video-codecs/ #opensource #codecs #freesoftware #mozilla #buckminsterfuller #quotes
bes: Thanks to all the people working so hard to drive software freedom forward! Happy Software Freedom Day! #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #SFD2017 https://io.schiessle.org/attachment/53807
bes's status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 04:46:09 EDT
Thanks to all the people working so hard to drive software freedom forward! Happy Software Freedom Day! #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #SFD2017 https://io.schiessle.org/attachment/53807
omeelog: ♻ Jonathan Le Lous @JollFr Clouds are Linux ;-) #CloudComputing #opensource !libregraphics !owncloud !owncloud !nextcloud !linux !fs !foss https://gnusocial.de/attachment/3987859
omeelog's status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2017 13:46:47 EDT
♻ Jonathan Le Lous @JollFr Clouds are Linux ;-) #CloudComputing #opensource !libregraphics !owncloud !owncloud !nextcloud !linux !fs !foss https://gnusocial.de/attachment/3987859
joelpurra: I live in Germany and could apply for this 30.000€ #grant. Have an #opensource project suggestion for me? https://prototypefund.de/en/
joelpurra's status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2017 09:45:55 EST
I live in Germany and could apply for this 30.000€ #grant. Have an #opensource project suggestion for me? https://prototypefund.de/en/
: Starting a modest #IndieWeb#100Daysof Positive Posts #100DoPP, inspired by@aaronpk#100DaysOfIndieWeb#100daysofmusic,@jkphl#100daysof #opensource,@sebsel#100dagen500woorden, and@gRegorLove#100Wordsin 100 Days.Despite being an optimist, I’m also expecting many (more) things to (start to) go wrong today with the inauguration of the new@POTUS. And since they’re often measured on their first 100 days in office, I’m making a deliberate effort to post at least something positive every day, preferably at the start of the day, as a direct counter.The basic idea for #100DoPP:* Every day: post something positive on your own site* whether something positive you did (ideally)* a positive / constructive idea or suggestion* or something positive someone else is doing or suggesting* Preferably *before* posting anything negative that same dayI’m not sure if I’ve ever had 100 continuous days of posts on my site, so I’m expecting to have to make this a part of my daily routine just to make sure it happens.@Twitterand other so-called “social media” make it easy to post *something* every day to their silos, so 100 days of that is not interesting in my opinion.It’s also easier to complain than to be constructive.Thus despite not being as ambitious ashttps://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofindiewebor certainlyhttps://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofmusic(which is seriously amazing), I expect 100 days of deliberately positive posts, on one’s own site, to be no small feat. Perhaps a medium feat. ;)Up for the challenge? Join me and tag your posts #100DoPP.Up for more? See:https://indieweb.org/100DaysOfIndieWebfor additional 100 Days projects.
's status on Friday, 20-Jan-2017 15:06:45 EST
Starting a modest #IndieWeb#100Daysof Positive Posts #100DoPP, inspired by@aaronpk#100DaysOfIndieWeb#100daysofmusic,@jkphl#100daysof #opensource,@sebsel#100dagen500woorden, and@gRegorLove#100Wordsin 100 Days. Despite being an optimist, I’m also expecting many (more) things to (start to) go wrong today with the inauguration of the new@POTUS. And since they’re often measured on their first 100 days in office, I’m making a deliberate effort to post at least something positive every day, preferably at the start of the day, as a direct counter. The basic idea for #100DoPP: * Every day: post something positive on your own site * whether something positive you did (ideally) * a positive / constructive idea or suggestion * or something positive someone else is doing or suggesting * Preferably *before* posting anything negative that same day I’m not sure if I’ve ever had 100 continuous days of posts on my site, so I’m expecting to have to make this a part of my daily routine just to make sure it happens. @Twitterand other so-called “social media” make it easy to post *something* every day to their silos, so 100 days of that is not interesting in my opinion. It’s also easier to complain than to be constructive. Thus despite not being as ambitious ashttps://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofindiewebor certainlyhttps://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofmusic(which is seriously amazing), I expect 100 days of deliberately positive posts, on one’s own site, to be no small feat. Perhaps a medium feat. ;) Up for the challenge? Join me and tag your posts #100DoPP. Up for more? See:https://indieweb.org/100DaysOfIndieWebfor additional 100 Days projects.
mmn: RT @bes The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) fighting for your rights for over 15 years. Join us now!https://io.schiessle.org/url/20068 #FSFE #FreeSoftware #OpenSource !FOSS
mmn's status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 18:00:06 EDT
RT @bes The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) fighting for your rights for over 15 years. Join us now!https://io.schiessle.org/url/20068 #FSFE #FreeSoftware #OpenSource !FOSS
bes: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) fighting for your rights for over 15 years. Join us now!https://io.schiessle.org/url/20068 #FSFE #FreeSoftware #OpenSource !FOSS
bes's status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 16:02:27 EDT
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) fighting for your rights for over 15 years. Join us now! https://io.schiessle.org/url/20068 #FSFE #FreeSoftware #OpenSource !FOSS
majestyx: sooooo very early this morning .... but, the sun is shining, also a good day for #freesoftware #opensource and !gnusocial - guten morgähn! ;-)
majestyx's status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 02:34:36 EST
sooooo very early this morning .... but, the sun is shining, also a good day for #freesoftware #opensource and !gnusocial - guten morgähn! ;-)
cmhobbs: I just picked up a LAN Turtle and a USB Rubber Ducky for an upcoming pentesting gig. They're a bit nefarious but I'm sure they could yield great fun. I got them here: http://hakshop.myshopify.com/ I believe they're #opensource but I'm not sure if they're #freesoftware.
cmhobbs's status on Friday, 27-Nov-2015 19:25:47 EST
I just picked up a LAN Turtle and a USB Rubber Ducky for an upcoming pentesting gig. They're a bit nefarious but I'm sure they could yield great fun. I got them here: http://hakshop.myshopify.com/ I believe they're #opensource but I'm not sure if they're #freesoftware.
majestyx: #opensource #code #freesoftware #floss #ilovefs #gnu #linux !fediverse !gnusocial **BIG** THANKS @all #podmin !podmin YOU rocks !! too :-) #digitalhuge https://gnusocial.no/attachment/14416
majestyx's status on Wednesday, 22-Jul-2015 15:12:39 EDT
#opensource #code #freesoftware #floss #ilovefs #gnu #linux !fediverse !gnusocial **BIG** THANKS @all #podmin !podmin YOU rocks !! too :-) #digitalhuge https://gnusocial.no/attachment/14416
cmhobbs: RT @amnezic free computing is out! http://quitter.se/url/1014472 next edition in 22h #opensource #gnu
cmhobbs's status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2015 08:36:19 EDT
RT @amnezic free computing is out! http://quitter.se/url/1014472 next edition in 22h #opensource #gnu
amnezic: free computing is out! http://quitter.se/url/1014472 next edition in 22h #opensource #gnu
amnezic's status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2015 06:38:37 EDT
free computing is out! http://quitter.se/url/1014472 next edition in 22h #opensource #gnu
pagsheathenman: #opensource #php based #search #engine http://spid8.pags.to first tests, started index of !gnusocial related t https://pags.to/notice/40085
pagsheathenman's status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2015 19:48:57 EDT
#opensource #php based #search #engine http://spid8.pags.to first tests, started index of !gnusocial related t…
marc0s: The #OpenSource panel at #WebRTCBCN https://status.tenak.net/attachment/4823
marc0s's status on Wednesday, 04-Mar-2015 13:30:35 EST
The #OpenSource panel at #WebRTCBCN https://status.tenak.net/attachment/4823
isamafifi: !fs !gnusocial hi guys, I want to help somebody in the embedded systems fields, I know that you must have https://quitter.no/notice/285181
isamafifi's status on Friday, 27-Feb-2015 09:31:54 EST
!fs !gnusocial hi guys, I want to help somebody in the embedded systems fields, I know that you must have …
roland: @johndoe von der Grundidee her finde ich es gut, ein weiteres soziales #OpenSource Netz zu schrei https://social.mxchange.org/notice/115301
roland's status on Friday, 20-Feb-2015 05:27:24 EST
@johndoe von der Grundidee her finde ich es gut, ein weiteres soziales #OpenSource Netz zu schrei…
bobjonkmanformer: ♻ ownCloud community @ownClouders: the !ownCloud #iOS app is now #opensource and open for contribution http://sn.jonkman.ca/notice/643765
bobjonkmanformer's status on Friday, 21-Nov-2014 21:53:52 EST
♻ ownCloud community @ownClouders: the !ownCloud #iOS app is now #opensource and open for contribution…
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
larjona: GoDaddy and GlobalSign offer free SSL certs for #opensource projs. Does this include people who !selfhost with #freesoftware? !lazyweb
larjona's status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2014 01:53:44 EDT
GoDaddy and GlobalSign offer free SSL certs for #opensource projs. Does this include people who !selfhost with #freesoftware? !lazyweb
larjona: Tesla libera sus #patentes https://identi.ca/larjona/note/co8OHuRoTDyRAnM26jI52g #oleole y ole #opensource #softwarelibre #innovation
larjona's status on Friday, 13-Jun-2014 03:35:17 EDT
Tesla libera sus #patentes https://identi.ca/larjona/note/co8OHuRoTDyRAnM26jI52g #oleole y ole #opensource #softwarelibre #innovation
gegeweb: Dommage que ça n'intéresse pas grand monde dans la communauté comme niche… parce que y'a un marché ! #Manage #Rental #Software #OpenSource
gegeweb's status on Wednesday, 21-May-2014 12:24:25 EDT
Dommage que ça n'intéresse pas grand monde dans la communauté comme niche… parce que y'a un marché ! #Manage #Rental #Software #OpenSource
laurelrusswurm: @cmhobbs Not messed up at all… #OpenSource is better than proprietary software any day of the week.
laurelrusswurm's status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2014 19:41:54 EST
@cmhobbs Not messed up at all… #OpenSource is better than proprietary software any day of the week.
cmhobbs: I was there some years ago as well. The messed up part was that I was a heavy GNU/Linux user, but kn https://loadaverage.org/notice/208532
cmhobbs's status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2014 18:22:35 EST
I was there some years ago as well. The messed up part was that I was a heavy GNU/Linux user, but kn…
bobjonkmanformer: Facebook and #OpenSource in the same sentence? I remain skeptical. When the Facebook Web UI is released u http://sn.jonkman.ca/notice/98185
bobjonkmanformer's status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2013 19:44:20 EST
Facebook and #OpenSource in the same sentence? I remain skeptical. When the Facebook Web UI is released u…
identlud: RT @pscoffoni 700€ au lieu de 40000 à 120000 : Une main prothétique, #opensource et accessible... - http://p.scoffoni.net/archives/14352
identlud's status on Friday, 18-Oct-2013 02:48:56 EDT
RT @pscoffoni 700€ au lieu de 40000 à 120000 : Une main prothétique, #opensource et accessible... - http://p.scoffoni.net/archives/14352
pscoffoni: 700€ au lieu de 40000 à 120000 : Une main prothétique, #opensource et accessible... - http://p.scoffoni.net/archives/14352
pscoffoni's status on Friday, 18-Oct-2013 01:53:46 EDT
700€ au lieu de 40000 à 120000 : Une main prothétique, #opensource et accessible... - http://p.scoffoni.net/archives/14352
marc0s: RT @erkanyilmaz #OpenPGP JavaScript implementation: "aims to provide an #OpenSource OpenPGP library so it can be used on virtually every d
marc0s's status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2013 16:39:05 EDT
RT @erkanyilmaz #OpenPGP JavaScript implementation: "aims to provide an #OpenSource OpenPGP library so it can be used on virtually every d…
erkanyilmaz: #OpenPGP JavaScript implementation: "aims to provide an #OpenSource OpenPGP library so it can http://oracle.skilledtests.com/notice/285537
erkanyilmaz's status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2013 16:13:28 EDT
#OpenPGP JavaScript implementation: "aims to provide an #OpenSource OpenPGP library so it can …
marc0s: RT @larjona #POSS (post #opensource software) phenomenon, #licenses and #GitHub by @richardfontana http://t.co/SmLbx4ON8z /v @opensourceway
marc0s's status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2013 08:40:12 EDT
RT @larjona #POSS (post #opensource software) phenomenon, #licenses and #GitHub by @richardfontana http://t.co/SmLbx4ON8z /v @opensourceway
larjona: #POSS (post #opensource software) phenomenon, #licenses and #GitHub by @richardfontana http://t.co/SmLbx4ON8z /v @opensourceway
larjona's status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2013 06:07:11 EDT
#POSS (post #opensource software) phenomenon, #licenses and #GitHub by @richardfontana http://t.co/SmLbx4ON8z /v @opensourceway
identlud: Adblock plus seems to be #opensource : http://adblockplus.org/en/source
identlud's status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2013 12:10:42 EDT
Adblock plus seems to be #opensource : http://adblockplus.org/en/source