I have previously written a lot of code that is hosted on a public repo on GitHub, but it never had a license. It was written as part of my work while working for a non-commercial academic entity, and I would like to add a license before the link to the repo will be included in something that will be made public, potentially attracting one or two visitors.

This leaves me with a couple of questions:

1. Can I just add a license after the fact and it will be valid for all prior work?
2. Do I have to make sure the license is included in all branches of the repo, or does this not matter? There are for instance a couple of branches that are used to freeze the state of code at a certain time for reproducibility's sake (I know this could be solved in a better way, but that's how it is).
3. I have myself reused some of the code in my current work for a commercial entity (internal analysis work, only distributed within the organization). Should this influence the type of license I choose? I am considering a GPL-license, but should I go with (what I believe to be) a more permissive license like MIT because of this?

• step in and help review a few PRs

• help the project triage/reproduce bugs

• if code in the PR looks complicated or is hard to understand, ask for an explanation

• express your gratitude to the maintainers

• make your company sponsor projects they depend on

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Daniel is the creator of cURL : https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/30/howto-backdoor-curl/

Upscayl: Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler

https://www.upscayl.org/

@opensource

The Mixxx Board of Directors in pleased to announce plans to acquire the AlphaTheta Corporation (formerly known as Pioneer DJ), Serato Audio Research Ltd. and Native Instruments.

The successor of Openboard, Heliboard finally comes out in 1.0 my favorite open source keyboard out there.

I read the question and discussion started by @[email protected] and it got me thinking about where Bruce Perens' Post-Open Licence project was at. I missed the news that a first draft has been published.

The announcement from Bruce includes the below summary:

At the link below is the first draft of the Post-Open License. This is not yet the product of a qualified attorney, and you shouldn’t apply it to your own work yet. There isn’t context for this license yet, so some things won’t make sense: for example the license is administered by an entity called the “POST-OPEN ADMINISTRATION” and I haven’t figured out how to structure that organization so that people can trust it. There are probably also terms I can’t get away with legally, this awaits work with a lawyer.

Because the license attempts to handle very many problems that have arisen with Open Source licensing, it’s big. It’s approaching the size of AGPL3, which I guess is a metric for a relatively modern license, since AGPL3 is now 17 years old.

Send comments privately to bruce at perens dot com.

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I hate my current solution.

I use notification dictionary and dict.cc which is obviously not open source. For me, it takes too long just to translate a word, or look it up. Do you have a great system?

Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

Just a small tool I made to improve my Rust, GitHub repo can be found here.

I've taken inspiration from Rosettea/bunnyfetch and elenapan's bunnyfetch script.

I tried a couple license finders and I even looked into the OSI database but I could not find a license that works pretty much like agpl but requiring payment (combined 1% of revenue per month, spread evenly over all FOSS software, if applicable) if one of these is true:

• the downstream user makes revenue (as in "is a company" or gets donations)
• the downstream distributor is connected to a commercial user (e.g. to exclude google from making a non profit to circumvent this license)

I ask this because of the backdoor in xz and the obviously rotten situation in billion dollar companies not kicking their fair share back to the people providing this stuff.

So, if something similar exists, feel free to let me know.

Thanks for reading and have a good one.

I use Imagemagick for some things, but this is to recommend to other non technical users

A lot of people upload their sensitive files to online converters/compressors, and I'd like to recommend something easier

Say

• webp to PNG to jpeg
• compressing PDF, converting to and from other formats, extracting pages, unlocking, etc

I am looking something to connect to my server from outside my local network.

I am on a shared IP and my ISP doesn't have port forwarding.

• Can I opensource it in a way where changes is not open to the public?
• I have google verification file on my git, is it ok to put it in the public?

The platform is gitlab.

It has been a month since the last time I've posted about Treedome. Back then it was still in 0.4.0 and there's a lot of little tiny tidbits of missing/bugged components.

I've polished it since then, please take a look https://codeberg.org/solver-orgz/treedome/compare/0.4...0.4.5!

Notable changes since then are:

• Node path will now be visible on editor, made sure user make less mistake when editing their note
• The width of note tree and text editor is now configurable
• Configurable idle timeout that will close and save your notes, defaulted to 300,000 ms or 5 minutes
• Removed about menu, now user can easily click on big badges which will open links to our repository, matrix room, etc.
• Various fixes and little adjustments

Install it on arch (btw) and nix (0.4.5 is in review not merged yet)

https://www.pushbullet.com/

Winlator is an Android application that lets you run Windows (x86_64) games and applications using Wine and Box86/Box64.

Version 6.0 Changelog:

• Added Magnifier
• Added option to add Wallpaper
• Improved UI
• Fixed Container startup error that occurred on some devices
• Improved XInput compatibility
• Improved Input Controls and Cursor sensitivity
• Added support for external mouse
• Updated Wine, Box86/Box64, Turnip and DXVK
• Added "Bring to Front" on Task Manager
• Added 7-Zip on context menu
• Removed the option to install OBB image (now it's all in one apk)
• Performance improvements and other fixes

This repo is also mirrored to Codeberg.

I made an easy to use ToDo app, just to learn a bit about programming and Flutter. It does not really provide any benefits over other ToDo apps, but I am glad that I was able to make this.

You can download the APK for Android, rpm for RHEL/Fedora or just use the AppImage.

I am willing to work more on this, you can read the roadmap in the link provided.

Any guidance, criticisms, or comments will be greatly appreciated.