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On 2016-61

singpolyma commented on Free Culture is not in the current political discourse. at Reddit, saying
Even when the book came out, remix was pretty common (though not so common as now). The issue was and is that so much of this remix is "illegal art".

We need new life in the movement to promote the commons for our future.

in reply to @ 2016-61 02:11 UTC
singpolyma commented on Free Culture is not in the current political discourse. at Reddit, saying
At least the software freedom community has a decent understanding of the issues with patents.

in reply to @ 2016-61 02:09 UTC

On 2016-60

singpolyma commented on Free Culture is not in the current political discourse. at Reddit, saying
Free Culture mostly fails to even have a rally point these days. It's hard to introduce people because the movement is so fragmented/distributed. Besides this subreddit, where do you go to get news about free culture happenings?

in reply to @ 2016-60 22:40 UTC
singpolyma commented on Movim - A Social IM client fully based on XMPP - 0.9 release notes at Reddit, saying
So, pubsub nodes cannot be set to persist with prosody yet? Do you know if that's being worked on?

in reply to @ 2016-60 18:14 UTC

On 2016-59

On 2016-58

singpolyma commented on SFLC: The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues at Reddit, saying
The BSDs who hate copyleft still dislike CDDL. Also, could dual-license, don't have to change the license

in reply to @ 2016-58 13:19 UTC
singpolyma commented on Conservancy only needs 48 more supporters by March 1st to hit match doubling goal ! at Reddit, saying
Anyone issuing such an explanation would be helping the conversation. Doesn't matter if the person saying the correct thing is "good" or "evil" — if M$ said the same thing, they'd still be right.

In fact, if Oracle starts saying these things, life will get very interesting.

in reply to @ 2016-58 12:54 UTC
singpolyma commented on Conservancy only needs 48 more supporters by March 1st to hit match doubling goal ! at Reddit, saying
Conservancy enforcement activity almost never ends up as a lawsuit. Lawsuits are expensive and don't serve the goals conservancy has in an enforcement (education and compliance)

in reply to @ 2016-58 04:28 UTC
singpolyma commented on Conservancy only needs 48 more supporters by March 1st to hit match doubling goal ! at Reddit, saying
That's not a claim about what distros are "really" free, but a simple, factual explanation of an infringement case they (and everyone) have been getting a lot of questions about.

in reply to @ 2016-58 04:27 UTC
singpolyma commented on Conservancy only needs 48 more supporters by March 1st to hit match doubling goal ! at Reddit, saying
I think you're maybe confusing them with FSF?

in reply to @ 2016-58 03:07 UTC

On 2016-57

On 2016-56

singpolyma commented on Ideas for Intro to Functional Programming Class? at Reddit, saying
I have several times run a workshop at my company to run people through some basics: http://www.boltmade.com/presentations/intro-to-functional-programming

I have also (once) at the local hackerspace run an introduction to computer science, which contains quite a bit of functional. Curriculum: https://github.com/singpolyma/cs-top-and-bottom

in reply to @ 2016-56 21:18 UTC
singpolyma closed issue singpolyma/cheogram#34. @ 2016-56 21:13 UTC
singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/cheogram. @ 2016-56 21:13 UTC
singpolyma opened issue singpolyma/cheogram#34. @ 2016-56 16:03 UTC
singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/cheogram. @ 2016-56 15:28 UTC
singpolyma closed issue singpolyma/cheogram#29. @ 2016-56 15:28 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/cheogram#29. @ 2016-56 14:54 UTC
singpolyma commented on [license question] How is ZFS linked into Ubuntu 16.04, and is it really a GPL violation? at Reddit, saying
ZFS is present in the Ubuntu release as a kernel module (zfs.ko) and as explained in the article you link, this is a GPL violation.

in reply to @ 2016-56 14:13 UTC
singpolyma commented on Harald Welte: Report form the VMware GPL court hearing at Reddit, saying
Actually, signing over rights would have prevented this case from going forward at all (since presumably Linux Foundation would have them and VMware is a member there)

in reply to @ 2016-56 13:30 UTC
singpolyma commented on What does the Debian/Mozilla agreement mean for the freedom of debian distributions? at Reddit, saying
You can change firefox and redistribute the source changes. If you make binaries with your changes, just don't enable the mozilla branding compile options

in reply to @ 2016-56 04:53 UTC
singpolyma commented on Is mentioning the name of a license good enough? at Reddit, saying
I think so. Sounds like permission in writing. #TINLA

in reply to @ 2016-56 04:51 UTC
singpolyma commented on open source v freemium? I really can't figure this out... at Reddit, saying
Those two certainly look open source to me. What is the issue exactly?

If you're more used to quickbooks-style, I suggest trying GNU Cash

in reply to @ 2016-56 04:49 UTC
singpolyma commented on Is mentioning the name of a license good enough? at Reddit, saying
Just mentioning a name is very dubious IMHO. #IANAL

in reply to @ 2016-56 04:45 UTC
singpolyma commented on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux - Conservancy Blog at Reddit, saying
No, the shim does not make the whole thing derivative of course. But it does make the shim derivative. And they are distributing the shim. That is the infringement

in reply to @ 2016-56 04:43 UTC
singpolyma commented on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux - Conservancy Blog at Reddit, saying
Linux kernel license contains a specific exception to the GPL for userspace programs making syscalls to avoid this issue

in reply to @ 2016-56 04:41 UTC

On 2016-55

singpolyma commented on issue slashdotdash/node-ledger-web#5. @ 2016-55 21:56 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue simonmichael/hledger#99. @ 2016-55 21:29 UTC
singpolyma closed issue vprokopchuk256/mv-core#7. @ 2016-55 19:22 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue vprokopchuk256/mv-core#7. @ 2016-55 19:22 UTC
singpolyma commented on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux - Conservancy Blog at Reddit, saying
They could use it in OEL if the did the relicense. But for some reason they think pushing btrfs to reinvent something they already own is a better way…

in reply to @ 2016-55 18:55 UTC
singpolyma commented on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux - Conservancy Blog at Reddit, saying
SFC is already funding a module compliance case (the VMWare case). My guess would be they wait on the outcome of that while proceeding with "diplomatic means" here for now

in reply to @ 2016-55 18:53 UTC
singpolyma commented on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux - Conservancy Blog at Reddit, saying

ZFS exists independent of Linux and is not a derivative

But the code that makes it work with the Linux filesystem APIs is not independent
in reply to @ 2016-55 18:50 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue rspec/rspec-expectations#805. @ 2016-55 16:00 UTC
singpolyma commented on How can Linux become widespread if you literally have to know basic coding to use it? at Reddit, saying
Besides the wrongness you're driving for, there's also the fact that you never need to use CLI for anything, many of us just prefer to. Members of my family don't CLI their debian or ubuntu installs, they GUI everything

in reply to @ 2016-55 13:07 UTC

On 2016-54

On 2016-53

singpolyma opened issue superfeedr/subtome#88. @ 2016-53 22:30 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue superfeedr/subtome#23. @ 2016-53 22:10 UTC
singpolyma opened issue superfeedr/subtome#87. @ 2016-53 22:08 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue gentakojima/emojione-picker-ubuntu#3. @ 2016-53 19:06 UTC
singpolyma commented on Opensourcing an Apsstore app at Reddit, saying
Permissive would be safest to allow use on Appstore, but see https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/4779o0/opensourcing_an_apsstore_app/d0as3v1 MPL might work

in reply to @ 2016-53 18:24 UTC
singpolyma commented on Opensourcing an Apsstore app at Reddit, saying
MPL might be appstore compatible, see: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1762/is-the-mozilla-public-license-compatible-with-apples-app-store

in reply to @ 2016-53 17:22 UTC
singpolyma commented on Opensourcing an Apsstore app at Reddit, saying

All I need is to prevent someone making commercial profit out of MY app!

If you want to inhibit big corporate exploitation, then copyleft is often enough. The situation is somewhat complicated because most copyleft licenses prevent an app from being put on the Apple appstore (because of Apple's terms). It would not prevent you from putting it on the appstore of course (unless you accept patches).

If you actually wish to prohibit commercial use of your app, you will find that such a prohibition is incompatible with the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd
in reply to @ 2016-53 16:55 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue meitar/wp-pgp-encrypted-emails#1. @ 2016-53 16:00 UTC

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