So, I make bits of software, mostly plug-ins for platforms like #DaVinciResolve or #Blender, mostly because I have a particular thing that needs doing that no-one has catered to. And I yoik them up to Codeberg and if I'm feeling organised I'll write them up on my blog, so that anyone else that has the same particular need can benefit too. I have no intention of selling them, because marketing stuff is not something I remotely enjoy doing, testing and bug fixing is too time consuming, and because I consider it payment for all the free software I get to use.
Generally I release everything under the #GPL3, because it's the one I know about. I'm not really a #coder, and I'm far less a #lawyer, so I have no idea if this is the best option.
So the question I want to #AskFedi is: what do you do with small #code projects you write? What license do you release them under and why, and how do you go about distributing them?
I've only ever had one or two people fork my code or make PRs, I don't think a lot of people in my industry also code, so everything I do is a solo project. So I'd be interested in how people find collaborators for stuff they do.
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From: blenderdumbass . org
With all the progress that has been done with liberating the digital space there is a sense of self defeating, depression. A kind of defense mechanism of sorts. As if the people settled for something and gave up trying to do anything else. Which in itself causing lack of morale, lack of vision, and with i...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_incels_of_computing:_the_depressive_defense_mechanisms_of_free_software
If you want to warm your heart after whatever else you've been reading today, feel free to skim through the Annual Reports for Sugar Labs: https://www.sugarlabs.org/community/2025/03/24/annual-report/
I have yet to promote it on the official Sugar Labs channel. It's a treat, just for you! And, if you see any typos, please let me know. We don't, like, any staff to look over anything I've written. (Yes, I wrote all ~15 pages myself, without any help from gen-AI.)
ミュジック・ブロックスと「Sugarizer」の開発と @sugar_labs の未来のゴールなどを @LPI とのインタビュー：https://www.lpi.org/ja/blog/2025/03/12/devin-ulibarri-how-sugar-labs-empowers-education-via-floss/
（日本語を久しぶりに使ってて間違えがあってすみません。）
Cette semaine, on échanges sur les kiosques et l'affichage d'informations municipales.
L'occasion, de découvrir Xibo (https://xibosignage.com), solution libre d'affichage sur écran utilisée par plusieurs collectivités.
La semaine prochaine : documentation d'une solution de kiosque développée à @echirolles et basée sur Debian, OpenBox et OpenKiosk. PC en accès libre, affichage municipal, salles de visio… les usages potentiels sont nombreux.
**#OpenSource** **#FreeSoftware #LogicielsLibres**
O problema é que, hoje mesmo, não é possível afirmar que o sistema operacional de nossas tornozeleiras eletrônicas de bolso e outros dispositivos com o mesmo é software livre simplesmente porque não temos nem uma das pré-condições para considerarmos isso, que seria acesso a todo seu código-fonte. Temos apenas parte inexequível por si só. O próprio sítio do projeto admite que não é possível executar "AOSP" em dispositivo físico algum. Quem ainda se esforça, como p. ex. LineageOS (mesmo sem serviços Google), para viabilizar determinado aparelho, lamentavelmente, só consegue fazê-lo funcionar ao incluir partes não livres.
Não deveriam nem alegar que "AOSP" seria sofware de "código aberto" pois tampouco está de acordo com tal definição pela OSI. Ou seja, até o nome do projeto parece mais um acinte com a comunidade. Publicidade daquelas.
Aqui entra o alerta de que Linux, o kernel tanto usado frequentemente com GNU, entre outros, como ainda, no caso em questão, por Android, também não é 100% de código aberto nem é totalmente considerado software livre, por razões similares.Então, conceitualmente, não muda muita coisa. Em minha opinião, já não dava pra considerar o conjunto da obra sequer como "source-available", a dúvida levantada, e continuará assim.
Ressalvo que afirmo isso tudo salvo melhor juízo. É apenas minha impressão diante da notícia cumulada com a interpretação pessoal do material da área. Nem faço parte oficialmente de qualquer coletivo formal.
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New on // foss.events: PyCon Austria by Python Austria on 06-07 April 2025 in University of Applied Sciences Burgenland in Eisenstadt in #Eisenstadt, #Austria
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/04-06-pycon-austria.html
Did you know #FSF has been publishing a biannual magazine called the Free Software Foundation #Bulletin since nearly its start? Have a look at the archives to read years of #FreeSoftware articles by FSF staff and community members! https://www.fsf.org/bulletin
New on // foss.events: Linuxwochen Eisenstadt on 05 April 2025 in Hochschule Burgenland in #Eisenstadt, #Austria
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/04-05-linuxwochen-eisenstadt.html
A #ThankGNU! to James Wilson, John Fremlin, and Ramana Kumar for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
@simon @contrapunctus https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/dec/12/linux-banned-russian-contributors-do-i-need-to/ this analysis gives more insight into the sanctions.
"The sanctions are primarily intended to punish Russia for, and to degrade its ability to conduct, its interference in U.S. elections, its flouting of international rules, and its aggression in Ukraine. It is difficult to see how rejecting Russian contributions furthers any of these goals."
SFC includes lawyers that side with Free Software.
Bleiben Sie auf dem Laufenden! #LibreOffice 25.2.2 ist jetzt verfügbar, und es gibt auch ein Update für unsere vorherige Hauptversion:
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/03/27/ankuendigung-von-libreoffice-25-2-2-und-libreoffice-24-8-6/
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung
#LibreOffice 25.2.2 Open-Source Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 83 Bug Fixes https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-2-2-office-suite-is-now-available-for-download-with-83-bug-fixes
Stay up-to-date! #LibreOffice 25.2.2 is now available, and there's also an update to our previous major release: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/27/libreoffice-25-2-2-and-24-8-6/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Interesting discussion with developers of #fusiondirectory who stopped providing debian source packages publicly, don't provide another build system or installation instructions but still want people to call it #FreeSoftware.
Basically you have to write a build system / installation documentation yourself if you really have to use that software.
https://github.com/gosa-project/gosa-core/issues/66#issuecomment-2757990085
New on // foss.events: OpenEduDay by CH Open on 17 May 2025 in PHBern vonRoll Hochschulzentrum in #Bern, #Switzerland
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/05-17-openeduday.html
Official hashtag(s): #openeduday
To all users of Zorin OS ‘Lite’: this lightweight version using the #XFCE desktop environment will no longer be developed or maintained beyond Zorin OS 17 and 18 (end of support and maintenance in June 2029).
2 solutions: 
migrate to the Core, Pro or Education versions of Zorin OS change GNU/Linux distribution
The official reasons for this decision are detailed in this article: https://help.zorin.com/docs/getting-started/getting-zorin-os-lite/
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LogicielsLibres #ZorinOS #Zorin #Linux
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Are #Apple devices really privacy-respecting? The truth is that user privacy is *impossible* without #FreeSoftware. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3fy #DefectiveByDesign
so, uh, the GPL's text proposes that an interactive-mode program should display something like this when starting up:
<program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type "show w".
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type "show c" for details.
and i just realized that this is awfully similar to the way GDB's interface works. the notice is different, and the commands are show copying and show warranty instead, but you can see how the two are related.
if anything, this makes me think that the text used in the GPL might have been taken from an earlier version of GDB, back when show had fewer possible parameters and it was possible to unambiguously assign show c and show w to "show the program's license" and "show the warranty info"...
From: blenderdumbass . org
The challenge for Dani's Race is deliberately not to be a movie. As in the game should not have cuts, nor there ever should be a moment when the player loses control over the character. Yet through all those limitations I want to continue a story I started in an actua...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/story_without_cutscenes_in_dani_s_race
