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On 2015-355

Stephen Paul Weber posted, “If you say "blackslash" you are almost always wrong.” @ 2015-355 17:13 UTC
singpolyma opened pull request siacs/Conversations#1611. @ 2015-355 16:25 UTC
singpolyma created branch add-from-invite at singpolyma/Conversations. @ 2015-355 16:23 UTC
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@NeilDawson67 Found you on Jamendo. Great stuff. Unfortunately, Jamendo no longer lists the CC license for an album – — curious about yours.” @ 2015-355 16:15 UTC
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@flying_squirrel simpletax.ca is amazing” in reply to @ 2015-355 15:49 UTC
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Your libre Christmas music source: https://libre.fm/listen.php?tag=christmas” @ 2015-355 15:43 UTC
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@mikeboos do you actually read your tax forms? Computer just auto-files mine” in reply to @ 2015-355 15:36 UTC
singpolyma starred eloquence/freeyourstuff.cc. @ 2015-355 05:00 UTC
singpolyma commented on Help needed to create a web site with Legal advice for Free Software and Creative Commons Communities at Reddit, saying
Use the Discourse software. they offer hosting or it should be not to hard to get set up on commodity hosting

in reply to @ 2015-355 04:56 UTC

On 2015-354

Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Protecting users from corporate negligence: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38992.html” @ 2015-354 21:13 UTC
singpolyma starred dellis23/ispy. @ 2015-354 20:51 UTC
singpolyma commented on I use CCleaner as my go to uninstaller. Open source alternative suggestions? at Reddit, saying
If you're switching away from windows, most distros don't have these issues because the package manager knows about what is installed and can properly remove it.

in reply to @ 2015-354 16:13 UTC
singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
https://sfconservancy.org/members/services/

in reply to @ 2015-354 15:56 UTC
singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
They have their goal and current progress in the header of their website

in reply to @ 2015-354 15:53 UTC
singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying

Is libressl a drop-in replacement?

Yes, though if you're using some of the more baroque features of OpenSSL they're not supported. libressl is definitely the future
in reply to @ 2015-354 15:51 UTC
singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
Switching to GPLv3 would be very difficult for a project like Linux, and Linus doesn't seen an advantage that would justify all that non-coding effort

in reply to @ 2015-354 15:50 UTC
singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying

The SFC has a very narrow focus, which is to provide GPL enforcement (for any software licensed under the GPL)

In fact, the SFC is primarily purposed with providing support services for their member projects (https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) — one of those services is GPL enforcement, but they also have many other important services (such as enabling projects to give tax receipts for donations, etc).
in reply to @ 2015-354 15:45 UTC
singpolyma commented on "Some companies have withdrawn from funding us [Software Freedom Conservancy] and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our [GPL] enforcement work." at Reddit, saying
The SFC works to support free software projects (https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) to provide them with all the services they need to accept charitable donations, etc, as well as some others such as enforcement services, etc.

in reply to @ 2015-354 15:44 UTC
singpolyma commented on Conservancy needs 750 Supporters to continue its basic community services & 2,500 to avoid hibernating its enforcement efforts! The next 78 supporters who sign up by December 24th will count twice thanks to an anonymous match donor! at Reddit, saying
Currently they do not even support recurring subscriptions.

in reply to @ 2015-354 15:41 UTC

On 2015-353

On 2015-352

singpolyma commented on Sailfish UX and Apps are proprietary in Sailfish OS at Reddit, saying
Maybe more free. But Replicant is still Android… I just want to run debian on my devices. No more half-baked "mobile OS"

in reply to @ 2015-352 20:31 UTC
singpolyma closed issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-352 14:43 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-352 14:43 UTC
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “RT @aantonop CISA, the "Son of Patriot Act", passed the House. No warrants, all data. Don’t lobby. Don’t vote. Don’t whine. Don’t plead. ENCRYPT.” repost of @ 2015-352 14:07 UTC
singpolyma commented on Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Question at Reddit, saying
Why is that ideal?

in reply to @ 2015-352 13:32 UTC
singpolyma commented on Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Question at Reddit, saying
I don't know how a cc license will end up working out. Obviously it would be in the spirit of the license for you to provide schematics to people who purchase your product, but that may not be strictly required by the license.

in reply to @ 2015-352 04:18 UTC
singpolyma commented on Jolla is back in business! | Jolla Blog at Reddit, saying
A tablet that is crap to use I could work with. No tablet leaves me where I started.

in reply to @ 2015-352 03:59 UTC
singpolyma commented on Jolla is back in business! | Jolla Blog at Reddit, saying
Software already exists. Maybe some tweaks were needed for larger screen size or no cell radio? But certainly most of the money from a tablet crowdfunding should go to a tablet and not to a company's other pet projects…

in reply to @ 2015-352 03:58 UTC
singpolyma commented on Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Question at Reddit, saying
That's not how copyright works. Your changes are always your own. However, in order to be allowed the use the parts from the original at all you must abide by the terms of the license. In this case, that means your schematics must be BY-SA as well. If you want to work out specific details of how that applies to specific things you want to do I suggest you engage a lawyer who specialises in copyright.

in reply to @ 2015-352 03:36 UTC

On 2015-351

singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-351 23:10 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue mordak/Term48#8. @ 2015-351 23:10 UTC
singpolyma commented on Help! Designing a enterprise social network. at Reddit, saying
You might want to investigate GNU Social or Known.

in reply to @ 2015-351 19:58 UTC
singpolyma commented on Help! Designing a enterprise social network. at Reddit, saying
anything you build will probably be a higher-cost shallow copy of something awesome that already exists. Hard to make reccos without knowing any requirements, though.

in reply to @ 2015-351 14:25 UTC

On 2015-350

singpolyma commented on GPL vs Apache/MIT licenses - The ethical dilemma in Open source at Reddit, saying
Yeah, I'm not sure why all the GPL hate has come up recently. Some people seem to be developing this idea that GPL use in unethical, and yet those same people have no problem with the "all rights reserved" license…

in reply to @ 2015-350 16:32 UTC
singpolyma commented on GPL vs Apache/MIT licenses - The ethical dilemma in Open source at Reddit, saying

imposes restrictions on the commercial users of their software

Untrue. In fact, the free software definition requires that all uses (including commercial) be permitted
in reply to @ 2015-350 16:31 UTC
singpolyma commented on issue jitsi/jitsi-meet#96. @ 2015-350 15:43 UTC

On 2015-349

On 2015-348

Stephen Paul Weber posted, “RT @mlinksva Will the @UnsplashBook itself be under an open license? I can’t discern from https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikaelcho/the-unsplash-book/#project_faq_155881 … cf http://opendefinition.org” repost of @ 2015-348 18:26 UTC
singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying
Especially like this:

When you rip on a project or someone for their choice of license you are being gigantic jerk

in reply to @ 2015-348 15:44 UTC
singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying
Because he feels entitled to use the work for whatever he wants, including not allowing others to feel similarly entitled about his work?

in reply to @ 2015-348 15:41 UTC
singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying

you can modify the source of something licensed under the GPL and you DO NOT need to provide the source code so long as you do not distribute it or do not publish it somewhere?

That is correct.
in reply to @ 2015-348 15:40 UTC
singpolyma commented on Why I'm not using your open source project at Reddit, saying
The rise of all this unsubstantiated GPL hate is interesting to me.

I always have, and for now still do, license most of my code ISC. But I don't think I've ever hated the GPL with the kind of blind rage this and other posts seem to have.

in reply to @ 2015-348 13:30 UTC