

Why recommend a license that isn’t OSI approved?


Why recommend a license that isn’t OSI approved?


Eh, that may just promote a lot of “What are your opinions about x” posts where the first comment is the ad. Suppose it’s an open call to list alternatives though.


Legit thought it was just going to be a wall of text editors and nothing else
If I resort to using a Mac I want someone to put me out of my misery.
There was a rather famous piece of software at my last job. Guy writing it wanted job security. A lot of the core variables of the application were named based on the sounds a helicopter made. God damn onomatopoeia variables. Pretty sure that shit is still in use somewhere.


There were old wrappers that emulated sendmail but reformatted the message for use with gotify and such


Well, I wouldn’t go that far. Let’s not forget Nextcloud started as a fork for the same reason. The permissive license doesn’t stop us from keeping it alive, but it is something to be cautious of.


I’m curious about opencloud. It’s flashy, uses go, and has everything that I’m actively using in Nextcloud. The license does make me a little cautious about it though. Apache v2 on the server side is unusually permissive. AGPLv3 on the web ui is cool, but it’s also not really helpful if you’re not required to publish server changes.
Yeah, not sure how much he’s distancing himself from FUTO related things though. He brought up grayjay recently, but only specifically to talk about the devs comments on recent Texas app store legislation. Kind of a wash.
Given he is playing politician now, I don’t think he’s going to make a public statement about it. Not only would it hurt his influence but it would probably stall out any ongoing negotiations regarding right to repair. Shit sucks in general.
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It does, but it’s disabled by default. It’s explicitly for docker compatibility though, not a core part of the application.
You shouldn’t need to use the aur unless cachy is restricting your repo access. It’s all in arch extras.
You have the potential to run into issues if the device is externally managed. At&t likes to push firmware updates at early hours. Cutting power during one of those would be problematic.


It’s better than nothing but I hate the additional logs that came from it constantly fighting firewalld.


This was a large part of the reason I switched to rootless podman for everything


It’s astounding how many lowlifes are using commit counts to measure impact. It’s just throwing bisectability out the window and promoting stupid tactics for quick returns.


Usual tracking and fingerprinting issues. Would need to sandbox it to make it secure, but that then makes the fake traffic easier to identify. Not worth it in the end.


That defeats the privacy and bandwidth reasons you’d want to use uBlock but that’s close to the operating idea of AdNauseam.
MIT is perfectly fine. Most people want something more copyleft to avoid corporate bs. I use GPLv3 to make sure my company doesn’t do anything dumb. GPLv2 and MIT are fine if you just want credit.
AGPL is also cool, but I normally see it used in client/server configurations to prevent people from hiding the useful stuff under a different service.
Anything OSI approved will at least protect you from anything. The other licenses I see floating around usually get in trouble for vague language that can be interpreted in unintended ways.
Here’s the big book of licenses if you feel like skimming: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html