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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@JdeBP I have no idea what you're trying to say.

JdeBP
JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@cstross

As I pointed out in that post, there's a whole bunch of well-known people in the software world in there simply by dint of their names being attached to the copyright licences of various pieces of free/open source softwares. (Hyperlink to document in that post.)

And unlike in other cases, the USADOJ people didn't go through that document and black out the e-mail addresses.

#EpsteinFiles #CopyrightLicences

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Apparently I am mentioned (just once) in the Epstein Files.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01755942.pdf

(Spoiler: it's a deeply nerdy infosec discussion which name-checks one of my short stories. It doesn't even mention Epstein or Maxwell, let alone the Tangerine Shitgibbon or anything remotely incriminating.)

JdeBP
JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@cstross

You would have had your full name and unredacted e-mail address if only you had licenced some free/open source software. (-:

https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116007537194276014

#EpsteinFiles #CopyrightLicences

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JdeBP
JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Another non-political tid-bit from the #EpsteinFiles.

A whole load of famous software developers, from Paul Vixie and Bram Moolenaar through Matthew Dillon and Theo de Raadt to a positive laundry list of Perl module developers, all get search hits because someone decided to make a 205-page collection of free software/open source copyright licences.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00289243.pdf

I expect some very bored person one day to make a statistical analysis of how many of each kind of licence is in there.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #CopyrightLicences

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