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woelkchen , vor 17 Tagen an linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

LGPL

Depending on the provisions of a console's SDK, that may be not an option because you may be able to deduct some of the SDK's working from the released source code and that may violate the NDA.

woelkchen , vor 17 Tagen an Europe in Too much of a good thing? Spain's green energy can exceed demand, country is looking at storing capacity or buyers to solve electricity oversupply

Regulations prevent water being backfed to the river at too much of a warm temperature.

Of course, because it would kill the entire river ecosystem otherwise.

woelkchen , vor 17 Tagen an Europe in Too much of a good thing? Spain's green energy can exceed demand, country is looking at storing capacity or buyers to solve electricity oversupply

No problem: French nuclear reactors need to lower output in hot summers anyway because that shit relies on river water to be cold enough for cooling. Then they buy electricity from neighboring countries.

woelkchen , vor 18 Tagen an linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

And if I were to reverse-engineer a binary then I could still add that code to my software.

That's actually an important factor for ancient software whose source code was lost. A developer could, for example, declare all their old Atari 2600 games to be under GPL by just announcing it in their news blog. Collectors could then hunt for the binary files and decompile them. Decompiled software is still a derivative work, so that source code would still be under GPL. Sadly I'm just aware of one case from years ago where I can't even remember the specifics who and which software it was but he was like "I found some floppy disks from the 1980s, I lost the source code but binaries under GPL, so have fun".

woelkchen , vor 18 Tagen an linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

Interestingly enough, Tanenbaum doesn’t seem to mind what intel did.

Yeah, duh. Intelligent people read licenses before they pick one.

But there are some examples out there of people regretting releasing their work under a permissive license.

That's like signing a contract before reading it and then complaining that it contains provisions that surprise you when they are enacted. I'm baffled on a regular basis by how many people understand FOSS licenses only on the basis for hearsay, for example when people insist that GPLed source code must be made available free of charge for everyone. The GNU project has a FAQ about the GPL that spells it out that this is not the case and yet hardly anyone discussing FOSS licenses has even read the FAQ.

woelkchen , vor 18 Tagen an linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

That is actually a really bad rule, though you probably are only joking.

No, I wasn't.

There are many examples of short, but very valuable code. Just think about anything math or physics related.

A rule of thumb is not a strict law. I never disputed that there are certain edge cases. What has to be considered but is not on the radar of most people: Threshold of originality. A "valuable" 3 LOC bash script is likely not being able to be copyrighted in the first place. In cases where the work is tedious but not creative, the work may also not be able to be copyrighted (depending on jurisdiction). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow whether a certain jurisdiction protects tedious work or not.

woelkchen , vor 18 Tagen an linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

Rule of thumb: if your full license text is longer than your actual source code, you've probably picked the wrong license.

woelkchen , vor 20 Tagen an Europe in EU agrees on start of accession talks with Ukraine, Moldova

I think this is a little different as (Greek) Cyprus joined after the island had already been divided

So exactly like Transnistria?

woelkchen , vor 20 Tagen an Europe in EU agrees on start of accession talks with Ukraine, Moldova

this is an amazing step towards safety and security for Moldova.

Looking at how the EU dealt with Cyprus: Nothing will change. All of Cyprus is EU member, yet the EU happily accepts Turkish occupation in the northern half.

woelkchen , vor 23 Tagen an ich_iel in ich🧲iel

Der Internationalismus war ein linker Aspekt der SED (was nicht heißt, dass die Partei insgesamt gut war). BSW hat nicht einmal das, sind also einfach nur noch Faschisten.

woelkchen , vor 23 Tagen an ich_iel in ich🧲iel

Nein, man kann aber anhand von Beispielen klarmachen, dass BSW rotlackierte Faschisten und keine Linken sind.

woelkchen , vor 24 Tagen an DACH - jetzt auf feddit.org in BSW will Rede Selenskyjs im Bundestag boykottieren

Wie viel Geld bekommen sie für diese Aussage vom Putler aus Moskau?

Vielleicht ja auch gar keines und sie sind bloß Hirnwäsche-Opfer.

woelkchen , vor 25 Tagen an Europe in Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

Volvo already is a Chinese brand because it's owned by Geely. It's not an independent Swedish car maker that just happened to outsource production to China.

woelkchen , vor 26 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 26 Tagen) an linuxmemes in Windows updating just before thesis defense

Most distros don’t use Gamescope.

Well, that's the problem of the person making a general statement about all of Linux and not going into specifics.

woelkchen , vor 27 Tagen an Europe in Russia Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Its Use of Chemical Weapons in Ukraine, the US Government Says

How many red lines did Russia cross with barely any intervention by the US?