Fair Source Software in the AI age

kept by eddie mar 18

Fair Source licensing remains viable in the AI era by using contract law, not just copyright, to prevent clones from competing, even as AI-generated code challenges traditional open-source enforcement.

O’Saasy — License Agreement
The O'Saasy license permits free software use except for offering it as a SaaS product that competes with the copyright holder.
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract - Jeff Geerling
Bambu Lab threatened a developer with legal action over an AGPL-licensed OrcaSlicer fork, escalating its crackdown on local-only printer control.
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Core Devices keeps stealing our work
Rebble alleges Core Devices scraped its servers and relicensed community work under a restrictive license after earlier promising cooperation.
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How we cut build times by two-thirds by deleting our CMS
Sentry cut build times from 14 to under 4 minutes by replacing its headless CMS with Astro, Markdown files, and Claude Code skills for content management.
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Warden
Warden is a CLI tool that uses Markdown-defined skills to create AI agents that automatically review every pull request for security and correctness issues.
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