This article explains why it is a bit suboptimal to distribute LilyPond snippets under the terms of the GPL, even if one – as I do – loves to create, to share and/or to use free and open-source software. → …
INSPECTION of 2019-10-29 about Compliance, Musictools, Open Source etc. with 2 comments
IoT gadgets often only offer interfaces which do not allow to inspect or to modify their software. YOCTO tries to build specific software of IOT gadgets. And the GPLv3 requires that GPLv3 licensed software must be replaceable. So, we might ask, how YOCTO deals with this contradiction? → …
INSPECTION of 2019-06-30 about Compliance, FOSS, Open Source etc. with 1 comment
. Currently I am reviewing music software, as for example JNIZ. It allows “[…] to build and to harmonize several voices according to the rules of classical harmony.” [1] Although it is hosted on SourceForge, its license is ‘strange’. And by this, the author finally violates the GPL. A paramount example: → …
INSPECTION of 2019-02-17 about Compliance, FOSS, Licensing, Open Source etc. with 0 comments
With respect to my upcoming scientific projects, I’ve updated mycsrf (mind your Classical Scholar Research Framework): It now allows to use projects in projects, to define autonomous subprojects with specific databases and to sliver parts as independent projects. In other words: no more distractions, simply mycsrf-2.0
Miscellaneous of 2018-11-26 about LaTeX, Open Source, Geisteswissenschaft etc. with 0 comments
For improving the performance, usually javascript libraries are compressed by erasing all blanks, linefeeds and comments. Hence, they do not contain any license texts and only very brief license information. This is a problem in case of open source licensed javascript libraries. → …
INSPECTION of 2018-05-19 about Compliance, Javascript, Open Source etc. with 1 comment
… oder warum psiKeds openjdk-6 nicht mehr unterstützt! Gestern wollte ich endlich die psiKeds Sekundärliteratur updaten. → …
REPORT of 2014-01-05 about Open Source etc. with 0 comments
oder: ein bisschen innerfamiliäre Open Source Diversity. Auf den Chemnitzer Linuxtagen 2013 sprach ein Free Software Apologet, → …
INSPECTION of 2013-03-18 about FOSS, FSFE, Open Source etc. with 0 comments
2013 wurde auf der OSI mailing list diskutiert, ob PHP Programme gewissermaßen automatisch Open Source seien. Wie das? → …
INSPECTION of 2013-01-26 about Open Source, OSI etc. with 0 comments
oder Klaut Open Source Software in der Cloud die Open Source Software? 2012 diskutierten einige Open Source Adepten, ob Open Source Software in der Cloud das Prinzip von ‘Open Source Software’ unterlaufe? Es ging um folgendes: → …
INSPECTION of 2012-07-23 about Cloud, Open Source etc. with 1 comment