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
Musicologists have a hard time – namely if they want to enrich their LaTeX-texts by score examples and harmony analyses. Up to now, there did not exist any study of whether and how that could be realized with free software. This article summarizes a paper – written in German – concerning the topic LaTeX and Musicology, which on the quiet has become a self-referential tutorial teaching what’s possible and what is not. → …
REPORT of 2022-04-24 about FOSS, Harmonies, LaTeX, Musictools, Open Source, Geisteswissenschaft etc. with 0 comments
A presentation without images sucks. Therefore, we are sometimes tempted to take some from the Internet for beautifying our work. There are so many excellent pictures on the World Wide Web. But to legally inserting a foreign picture in one’s own presentation is not that easy. Unfortunately, a new type of troll has emerged recently, the image trolls. → …
INSPECTION of 2022-02-26 about Compliance, Open Source, Images etc. with 1 comment
I love ZEN-presentations, especially when they deal with open-source software. To create such files, we need pictures. Many pictures. That’s why I keep stumbling over the question of whether the FOSS licenses also allow us to use icons and logos in the same way as the code? Moreover: Under which conditions may we illustrate our articles with ‘internet-pictures‘ ? I’ve always wanted to make that clear to myself → …
INSPECTION of 2022-02-25 about Compliance, FOSS, Open Source etc. with 1 comment
Ich liebe den vi(m), insbesondere wenn ich in einem Repository arbeite. Es ist so leicht, schnell mal eben eine Datei per Konsole zu ändern, so einfach alle Trumps durch Biden zu ersetzen: :1,$ s/[Tt]rump/Biden/g. Aber am Desktop habe auch ich bisher natürlich GUI basierte Editoren genutzt, Gedit z.B. Oder – seit einigen Monaten – Atom. Daher rutschten mir manchmal vi-Befehle wie xi in meine Texte – weil ich vergessen hatte, dass ich einen Desktop-Editor benutzte. Aber jetzt ist ein Traum wahr geworden: → …
INSPECTION of 2020-08-31 about Open Source, Tooling etc. with 1 comment
In 2000, I had released the Gnu Template Generation Tools that instantiate a set of sources which were readily prepared for being developed, compiled, and installed with the GNU ‘Autoconf/Automake’ development environment. A few years later they were passed – by new languages, techniques, and tools. But now we have revitalized gtgt for special reasons of open source compliance: → …
REPORT of 2020-08-21 about Compliance, FOSS, Open Source, Tooling etc. with 0 comments
I am a loyal soul. But my patience is limited: On Ubuntu 20.04, the tips from Eclipse are displayed in black on black. Hmm. Markdown editors are cumbersome. Oops. And the ‘spell-check’ for German-English texts still doesn’t work. Grrr. So, it is time to conquer new frontiers: everyone is already talking about ‘Atom‘. Let us give it a try even if – on Ubuntu 04/20 – we have to circumnavigate some cliffs. → …
INSPECTION of 2020-08-09 about Open Source, Tooling etc. with 2 comments
Today, the German Corona-Warn-App was released. It was received positively, even at Spiegel and Welt. The German government wanted it to be developed as open-source software for increasing the acceptance of the app by the German people. Unfortunately, there is still some skepticism. Let me comment on some of these concerns: → …
REPORT of 2020-06-16 about Open Source etc. with 0 comments
There was a gap: The extraordinary and marvelous music notation software LilyPond could not adequately deal with harmony analysis symbols. As a last consequence, musicologists could not really use it. But the gap was closed – by harmonyli.ly. Here comes a very first introduction → …
REPORT of 2019-12-07 about FOSS, Harmonies, Musictools, Open Source, LilyPond etc. with 0 comments