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@hook@toot.si

Lawyer by day, hacker at night

#FOSS + #law + #tea + #gaming (+ #sailing) = ♥

Involved with #LUGOS, #Cyberpipe / #Kiberpipa, #FLA, #REUSE, #SPDX, #OpenChain, Pelican Elegant, (ex-#FSFE), …

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hook, to foss
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Not really surprising IMHO too.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2023/10/13/Wrong-About-GPLs

In continental Europe many of us were of understanding and position that a is a license within a unilateral contract already for years.

As a reminder, where I'm from a gift is a unilateral contract.

hook,
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@flameeyes, nah.

A license, by definition, gives you more rights than the law. So you don't need to agree to it.

A EULA typically gives you less rights than you'd get if it did not exist. So you have to agree with the reduction of your rights.

@foone

slothrop, to fedora
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    hook,
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    @slothrop what's next: Slackware install & forget?

    larsmb, to opensource
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    Have you seen a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) that's made to a single commercial entity (so foundations or non-profits excluded) that does not reserve the right to sub-/dual-/re-license on their part unilaterally? (Where?)

    Or: have there been legally binding restrictions on the licenses that they might choose?

    (Please boost for reach.)

    hook,
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    @larsmb are you looking for a (standard-ish) CLA text that meets those requirements or a an example company who did that?

    I might have an example, but depends on what you are looking for.

    Feels like your first and second paragraph are asking two different things.

    hook,
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    @larsmb, I’ll start with the potentially contentious one.

    CLAs, as licenses, come in many forms and can mean many things. Often when people discuss CLAs they have a specific one in mind, and as such the discussion is very loaded.

    But technically speaking (at least from the civil law PoV) even Inbound=Outbound is a CLA. There is an Agreement about Licensing between the Contributors, especially if it is explicitly stated somewhere and doubly so if there is a DCO involved.

    hook,
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    @larsmb, when it comes to a CLA text, what comes to mind is the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA).

    Blog post about the FLA 2.0 (useful links therein):
    https://matija.suklje.name/fiduciary-license-agreement-20

    Possibly the most prominent user is KDE, where it is optional (but encouraged) and makes use of a detailed list of under which licenses which category of software may be relicensed. The requirements to change that rule set are the same as for changing the KDE bylaws.
    https://ev.kde.org/rules/fla/

    hook, to foss Slovenian
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    Kot del projetka Na-Prostem.si smo naredili tudi:

    • (zelo) kratek in malce zabaven kviz:
    https://www.na-prostem.si/form/kviz

    • majhen pregled alternativ zaprtim programom:
    https://www.na-prostem.si/primerjalnik

    hook, to random
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    This was a surprisingly fun and interesting read:

    The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
    https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

    hook, to random
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    Next surprise of the day:

    Searching through a cca. 430 MiB JSON file with syntax highlighting is (much) faster in than in Bat (the modern CLI cat with syntax highlighting)

    hook,
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    Out of curiosity, I opened the same file again in bat and compared how much time it takes to open and find a string in a 430 MiB JSON file.

    • Bat took a bit over 10 minutes, and slowly consumed cca. 1663 MiB of memory.
    • KWrite took a bit over 1 minute, and consumed cca. 5560 MiB of memory.
    • Less (by itself, so no syntax highlighting) took just shy of 1 minute. Memory use, negligible.

    Long story short: fancy CLI tools are not always more efficient than fancy GUI tools.

    hook, to til
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    Positive surprise of the day that you can use 's in and it will auto-detect the archive format and compression.

    e.g. I just uncompressed a bunch of files with:

    ark --batch *.7z

    EposVox, to random
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    Continues to age like fine wine, like 15 years later

    hook,
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    @EposVox, it’s that time of the year again?

    hook, to Matrix
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    I like and use it a lot, but it pays to know its limitations:

    https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

    That said, I have an extremely limited understanding of the details this blog post describes.

    P.S. Still hoping for an renaissance.

    hook,
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    @jabberati , at @kiberpipa_cyberpipe we are currently trying to (re-)establish a bridge between and ( and would also be nice to include)

    hook, (edited ) to languagelearning
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    I need some 🇨🇵 help.

    I recently bought St. Marc Lessive Multi-usages on a whim, because I needed some laundry detergent and it was in the same shelf in the shop.

    After reading the label back home, it talks about cleaing all sorts of stuff ...except laundry.

    Can I use it to wash clothes, and if so how. (They are not aluminium)

    hook, to firefox
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    118 has local, in-browser machine translations. That’s pretty freaking cool!

    > Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine.

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/

    hook,
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    Has anyone managed to use it?

    I found the settings, but not how to trigger the actual translation.

    hook, (edited ) to web
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    Remember the experimental engine “of the future” that was making?

    It’s not dead! In fact, it was re-activated as a project and is being actively developed with the goal in mind to “provide an independent, modular, embeddable web rendering engine, allowing developers to deliver content and applications using web standards. ”

    https://servo.org/about/

    I wish it a bright future! There is hope! 😻

    @servo/

    jacqueline, to random
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    so if it's a single board computer, how come you have so many of them?

    hook,
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    @jacqueline, they are in a poliamourous open relationship …it's complicated

    luis_in_brief, to random
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    Deeply, gloriously obscure.

    From: @lexknowssystems
    https://botsin.space/@lexknowssystems/111088947681854036

    hook,
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    @luis_in_brief @lexknowssystems ,

    Lindows, nice.

    This was powering my first server:

    https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/ClarkConnect-4-3-Available-2.png

    hook, to linux
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    Random tool of the day:

    https://lnav.org/

    It’s an amazing viewer, and if you ever need to look at logs on (locally or remotely), do yourself a favour and check it out.

    hook,
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    @JonDorfman, what legal challenges?

    @Cicraft

    hook,
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    @JonDorfman I wonder how they would do that while also not violating patents on JoyCons that I suppose Nintendo has.

    I have not checked, but would be surprised if they do not.

    hook,
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    @JonDorfman, I did a quick online search for Nintendo’s JoyCon patents, and interestingly found a US one from 2023 (2020 in Japan) about what looks Hall effect analogue sticks:
    https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230280850A1/

    hook,
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    @JonDorfman, right, but Hall effect analogue sticks themselves have existed for a long time, so that technology in general (except any novel addition) is (most likely) not patented anymore.

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