Recently, I was asked whether we may trust unsplash, that its content is free – in the sense of free speech, not in the sense of free beer. The short answer is: YES. The long answer explains the difference between unsplash and unsplash+: → …
Open-Source of 2022-12-27 about Open Source, Images etc. with 0 comments
For 6 years, the Bitkom Open Source Guide 2.0 was a welcome first point of contact for German companies regarding the appropriate use of open-source software. It was a stimulating source and benchmark at the same time. But like everything else in the world, it has aged over time. Thus, it’s good to know that Bitkom and its ‘Open Source’ working group have taken up the topic again. In June 2022, there was officially released an expanded and refined Bitkom Open Source Guide 3.0, – again intended to be a manual and a benchmark for companies → …
Open-Source of 2022-07-11 about Compliance, FOSS etc. with 0 comments
After having updated to Ubuntu 22.04, I recently wanted to reactivate my music work environment. But when I installed Musescore-3 and let it play my music score, I got an ugly mess of background noises. And I could not add any soundfont. Obviously, I faced two obstacles that I had to overcome → …
Music, Open-Source of 2022-07-06 about FOSS, Musictools etc. with 0 comments
Under Ubuntu 22.04, Frescobaldi starts with an error: The area for displaying the music sheets says that Frescobaldi unexpectedly passes an argument of the type float to a function in qpageview /highlight.py respectively qpageview/shadow.py. Now, the user can ‘google’ for the cause – or read the following lines → …
Music, Open-Source of 2022-06-30 about Musictools etc. with 8 comments