falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

When the clock strikes midnight tonight, most of the published works from 1927 will move into the public domain in the US. Celebrate these works at one of our two Public Domain Day celebrations, January 19 & 20:
http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-two-ways-to-celebrate-public-domain-day-in-2023/

The @kdenlive team successfully raised 20K euro in 2022 to fund their work on nested timelines, better FX workflow, and performance boost

https://kdenlive.org/en/fund/

Whoa, @github@twitter.com seems to have a serious spambot problem currently...

Wondered when #github mention based #spam would become a thing for me.

Apparently today is the day! 🤮

A corporate "digital ethics consultant" taking a firm stance against... personal privacy. Got it.

Next up: A big-oil "environmental consultant" explains why that pipeline spill is actually a net environmental positive.

Wondering what's moving into the public domain in the US in just a few days? Our colleagues at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain have published their annual review: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

Celebrate the public domain with us January 19 & 20: http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-two-ways-to-celebrate-public-domain-day-in-2023/

Participate in our Film REMIX contest: https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/public-domain-day-2023-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/

the sad reality of open source software development

In short: folks love the amazing decentralised encrypted comms utopia of Matrix. But organisations also love that they can use it without having to pay anyone to develop or maintain it. This is completely unsustainable, and Element is now literally unable to fund the entirety of the Matrix Foundation on behalf of everyone else - and has had to lay off some of the folks working on the core team as a result.

https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022

We finally released version 1.0 of the REUSE helper tool to help projects with understanding their license information.
Also we are glad to announce that cURL and @gnuhealth projects became REUSE compliant this year: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220928-01.html#reuse

#softwarefreedom #copyright #freesoftware

Week highlights: new releases of @darktable, Hugin (panorama maker), and LSP plugins

Here is the full recap: https://librearts.org/2022/12/week-recap-25-dec-2022/

Featured @krita artwork by Hamilcar Pereira

After a year and a half of development – Haiku R1/beta4 has been released! 🎉 https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2022-12-23_haiku_r1_beta4/

While I was experimenting today with the latest release of @haiku r1beta4, which was released earlier today, I managed to port #LiteXL to it. It is still really premature but seems to work quite well.

I plan to keep on working on this and create a proper release. There is a lot I need to learn about Haiku, but I am really happy I will have my beloved editor to work with.

Adam Neely essentially suggests a Creative Commons Attribution licence on all music - he calls it a 'citational system' - as a solution to the dead end that copyright - The Grotesque Legacy of Music as Property - came to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFUdIZnI5o

#copyright #music