Cagey...
I dunno, names are scarce and if a project fails then I don't see too much wrong with reuse of the name.
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ddevault commented on Kagi raises $670k blog.kagi.com/safe-round... · Posted by u/erwinmatijsen
ddevault commented on Tinyx – Resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history github.com/tinycorelinux/... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman
It's not clear that they can change the license. For example in dix/dixfonts.c it says:
>Copyright (c) 1991, 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts. > >Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy >of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal >in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights >to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell >copies of the Software. > >The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in >all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Given the various GPL theories of tainting linked code and that this requires specific permissions be included with the program, not sure they can put a GPL license on the overall resulting product.
That's not quite how it works, you can relicense stuff under GPL and your distribution and any changes you made are GPL'd but the original remains MIT.
https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/derived-work...
https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/copyright-ow...
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ddevault commented on The damaging results of mandated return to office entrepreneur.com/growing-... · Posted by u/MBCook
To each their own. I find that WFH makes me incredibly unproductive, I'm glad I'm able to return to to the office. I think there are a lot of factors that affect this (e.g. I have a family with small children at home, and my commute is <15 minutes by bike).
Really done with this take. Show some solidarity for your peers. So you like working from the office -- good for you! Do that! But also stand up for your colleagues who don't want that. When your colleagues have fewer choices, when things like this are imposed on them, well, your preferences are not far behind from being managed themselves.
ddevault commented on Happiness is a reward from our ancestors woodfromeden.substack.com... · Posted by u/jinjin2
Can you expand on why you think this is a batshit crazy garbage?
Evolutionary psychology is psuedoscience.
ddevault commented on Reforming the free software message drewdevault.com/2023/06/1... · Posted by u/Tomte
This is a valuable project, executed well.
A suggested edit: the term "copyleft" at https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/licenses is confusing and is falling into disuse. "Reciprocal licensing" is easier to understand and is growing.
Does Drew Devault have a HN handle we can @?
Not sure that "copyleft" is confusing or falling into disuse, I hear people talking about it without confusion pretty often. First time I've heard "reciprocal licensing".
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Since your site quite explicitly aims to be an introduction to the F/OSS, it'd be prudent to explain that the "use" includes "resell". Seeing one's altruistic work meant for the common good being unceremoniously repackaged, sold and SEO'd above the original can be very discouraging.
I feel like it's pretty explicit:
> You are entitled to the use of any free software for any purpose, including commercial use – counter-intuitively, you can sell free software.
There are also sections which go into the utility of copyleft to mitigate some of this.
Might be worth going into more detail in a blog post.