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Ask Lemmy: What open source projects are you working on lately? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.

Or just whatever open source stuff you've been contributing to lately!

For me, it's https://openlibrary.org I've been working on having author pages populated with data from wikidata. Also a few other small things with documentation and small UI bugs :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My first instinct is to go for AGPL but the whole licensing debate isn't something I've ever really engaged with so I'm not really making an informed decision about that.

What's the advantages of a more permissive license?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Basically, Corpos can use/copy your code launch TruthSocialv2 and not have to share their changes/contributions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That wouldn't be cool. At all.

I'd prefer to go in the other direction (i.e. away from permissive) and add a 'no fascists or tankies or genocide' clause to AGPL, actually. ChatGPT assures me that would be bad and possibly illegal (?!) tho, so I might just end up putting stuff in the code of conduct which achieves the same ends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fuck corps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think frankly the AGPL shouldn't even be considered a free license. Merely running the program, even modified, shouldn't require you to publish the source code you run on your machine without distributing it.

In terms of practical advantages, a more permissive license will boost fediverse adoption by businesses, which I think is desirable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You only need to publish your changes to your users, if you are the only the user you don't have to publish anything.

Not sure if adoption by businesses is really wanted? Unless their goal is aligned with our cause but from profit seeking perspective I don't see how. But you are welcome to change my mind.

[–] 257m 2 points 1 year ago

Fediverse adoption from corporations is the exact opposite of ideal. If that were to happen the fediverse would enshittified just as much as sites like reddit are today.