When I first published RSS Brain, I promised the source code will be released (well, I actually said “open source”, but more on that later). After I rewrote the whole Flutter frontend with Javascript, most code is put into a single source repo. I feel comfortable to release it. So here it is on Github.
Highcharts JS, the JavaScript charting framework. Contribute to highcharts/highcharts development by creating an account on GitHub.
Keygen relicenses from ELv2 to the Fair Core License.
Free Software is software that respects the user’s freedom To someone who’s not a programmer: this sounds totally absurd What the heck is freedom that these people keep talking about? free? no paisa? 🤔 I had always thought it meant software — that was free-of-charge. After reading Wikipedia I was even more confused. It talked about ‘respecting your freedom’. Respects the user from what? cyber-bullying? blocks-ads? respects your time? I, just like you had no clue what they were talking about.
Due to the recent supply-chain attack on Solarwinds products, I wanted to put down a few thoughts on the role of open source software and security. It is kind of a rambling post and I’ll probably lose all three of my readers by the end, but I found it interesting to think about how we got here in the first place.\nI got my first computer, a TRS-80, as a Christmas present in 1978 from my parents.\n
I have been following the re-licensing upheaval which has been happening with Open Source database software over the last few years. Last year, I gave a couple of small talks on the subject at both, the London Open Source Databases Meetup (slides: Database Licensing Chaos), and at Declarative Amsterdam (slides: