Advisory: I am not a legal expert and there could likely be inaccuracies in this post. Today Gumroad announced that they’ve become open source, with this being echoed by the founder and on social sites like Hacker News:| Danb Blog
Last year I wrote about scripting monitors for my Gnome/Wayland/Fedora environment, and I’ve heavily utilised that script in my day-to-day PC use. Recently I jumped over to KDE for a change but my prior script was gnome specific and therefore no longer functioned.| Danb Blog
From my time exploring and using a range open source and/or self-hosted projects I’ve built up a range of known “amber flags”. I hesitate the call these reg flags, as by themselves I don’t think they’re specifically problematic, but they usually act as indicators of projects that aren’t aligned with my personal ideals in software I look for.| Danb Blog
I’m often looking at the licensing of open source projects, either out of personal interest or while moderating posts to /r/opensource, and through this I’ve seen a recent trend of projects having something like this in their readme:| Danb Blog
Played quite a lot this year; Got excited about Switch gaming for a while during the summer, and then later in the year I got myself a Quest 3 VR headset.| Danb Blog
Introduction Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open source software must comply with the following criteria: 1. Free Redistribution The license shall…| Open Source Initiative