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3687

yup that is fair

but that is not.

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3688
Favorite Software License?
  • GPLv3
  • GPLv2
  • AGPLv3
  • LGPLv3
  • BSD 2-clause
  • BSD 3-clause
  • MIT
  • Apache
  • CCO
  • Unlicense
  • I don’t care as long as it works and doesn’t spy on me
  • Other (too many to list)

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3689

Are these the OSF approved licences? I cant really tell which is which and I feel like these licences are mostly reflective of the ongoing political sentiments along the open source organizations.

3690

i dont know. i dont really understand legaleeze and lawyer-rizms, and have even less interest in politics. (but maybe stallman was right? ^tm)

resources:

edit: not legal advice

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3691
I read, and thought you meant, which license is best for me to create with, not for software of others to use

Have you done a pro/con list?

I have never published any code, but tyebway I see it, start with at least a very pen licence, for possible repudiation sake later. For now, work out, do you want credit, can they share, and do you want payment.

Presumably you are not yet on the payment bit, and different code can have different licences. You can even re-license, as you would be the sole contributed (to begin with)
So presuming you don’t demand money, will you let others take your code, rename it, and share it as their own, for profit, without crediting you, as long as the code is used?
Or, they can do it, but need your name in the list of contributes (apple are good with this in their regular OS patches)
Or, no-one can profit but anyone can use, without crediting you.

There are so many different ways to skin a cat, and each project is a different cat, that you really need to work out where you stand.
Also thee is a diff between your first little project, that would probably have a note permissive license, to ones that cone later, even if the first,open, one is the only one to widely take off?

I am not a coder, but really does make sense to work it out earlier. Also, open software is Great, and being paid is Greater, you don’t have to give one up, in order to keep the other

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3692

Hmm good point. Well I suppose I was asking in a general sense, but they are 2 separate questions:

  1. what is your preferred license for software you use (but didn’t write) as an end user?
  2. what is your preferred license for releasing your own software you wrote?
Summary

Personally I have used MIT, Apache, and Unlicense for various things as I have a sort of Laissez-faire attitude. I don’t own math or algorithms.

As a simple end user just trying to do work: “I don’t care as long as it works and doesn’t spy on me”.

I’m a big fan of the Unlicense in spirit due to its simplicity and anti-legaleeze wording that basically says: “here’s some code, leave me the f alone”.

Apache as I understand it is very similar to MIT but provides additional protection from patent trolls (not that anything I create is worth patenting but for example libGDX is Apache so I simply matched the license for my game for compatibility. (i need to update my blog soon, large half written post, busy busy…)

GPLv3 is however growing on me, and I’m debating switching over to it as I think its might be better for the end users long term as I try to wrap my head around all these concepts.

I think I will copy the Mindustry model. It’s also libGDX, but uses GPLv3 itself. Pay what you want on itch.io, and fixed price on Steam. I think this provides the best of both worlds for the end user choice and freedom.

edit: on second thought, ill leave it alone at Apache but still copy the Minustry model:

Regardless of licensing, I make my own stuff open source as its the best way I can give back to open source in a non-financial way. It’s also the best way I can fight back against enshittification. My entire stack is now open source from OS to end-product.

When you say:

Or, they can do it, but need your name in the list of contributes (apple are good with this in their regular OS patches)

Are you being sarcastic? Because apple has stolen:

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3694

Good point on apple, I was being mistaken. On the mobile is updates, it did list contributes and such, which I hadn’t seen on android. But of course Apple are gonna apple, so yeah, I take it back, and they probably don’t credit all the projects they incorporate

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3695

apparently Tovalds prefers v2 over v3

i don’t know what the right answer is

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3696

these questions are related so I will group them.

Perfered package manager?
  • I don’t care as long as it works
  • DPKG - Debian Package Management System
  • APT - Advanced Packaging Tool
  • RPM - Red Hat Package Manager
  • YUM - Yellowdog Updater, Modified
  • DNF – Dandified Yum
  • Pacman - Arch Linux Package Manage
  • Zypper Package Manager – openSUSE
  • Portage Package Manager – Gentoo
  • other

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Perfered Package Format?
  • I don’t care as long as it works
  • .DEB
  • .RPM
  • .TAR, TGZ, TAR.GZ
  • Flatpak
  • Snap
  • AppImages
  • other
  • compile it myself

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3697
Perfered Init System
  • I don’t care as long as it works
  • systemD
  • OpenRC
  • runit
  • Upstart
  • SystemStarter
  • launchD
  • Shepherd
  • s6
  • Dinit
  • other

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3698

is there an option for “I git/compile everything from source…” I don;t use it… but you seeemed to have everything else…

3699

will add it now

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3700

Was mostly joking; I don’t think anyone here runs like that…

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3701

@Kat wants a word :yay:

3702

Forum says I am all of of likes… So here is a emoji version…

:heart:

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3703

I have no idea what any of these words mean :joy:

3704

Bump on this poll.

3705

Favourite way to edit text/code/etc. ?

Editors
  • notepad.exe
  • Notepad++
  • vim
  • Emacs
  • kate
  • nano
  • VisualStudioCode
  • Gedit
  • Atom
  • whatever is default
  • Whatever takes the most time to get running

0 voters

Favourite video editor:

Video editors
  • Windows movie maker
  • Blender
  • kdenlive
  • BlackMagic DaVinci Resolve
  • Adobe Premier/Aftereffects
  • Shotcut
  • I splice magnetic tape together by hand
  • I splice film by hand!
  • Amiga VideoToaster
  • Apple iMovie
  • Sony (?) Vegas

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3706

Where is mi Vegas?
When I was still doing Uporn I mean Utube I used Vegas…

3707

Right! I forgot about that!
Sony Movie Studio (= Vegas for plebs) was my first “real” editor after MovieMaker.

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