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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I hope we eventually get a copyleft lisence that states: “by using this product in a comercial product you have commited to supporting it, either by monetary fee or doing development work for it behalf, otherwise this product is entirely free of cost and is provided as-is”.

    Edit: and the developers can freely reproduce the GPL license exception for all their products:

    // Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional
    // permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version
    // 3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
    

    Currently, and I don’t know why, this extremely useful license exception for (C++) headers, which is meant for compiled down to machine-code is not usable for anything else. If your library is not part of GCC, the GPL does not help you here. As such, if you publish a header only library under GPL, you cannot state that the code using your code is not under “API” boundary, ie. free of GPL, while keeping your precious header under GPL. And no, LGPL, does not save you here.

    You only have non-copyleft lisences like MIT (disgusting), Apache (shitly less gross), BSL-1.0 (still non copyleft) or LGPL (not gross, but extremely limiting.)

    And, if you still publish something, I plead it is at least under GPL, since this guarantees a life for the produce, non-negotioable, forever, which I think is still better than dying and giving up to pooh of public domain.











  • Just try find and track the price per kg of a good, and you are in deep shit. Its some times hidden, after several “get the app”, “two for one” just to find out the good is fucking more expensive if you refuse go though the privacy invasing hoops. What the fuck happended to “Limited time offer until this actually cheap batch is sold out!”


  • JATth@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devu WoT m8
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    2 months ago

    Deploy the hypnobots! Marketing +10000%!

    The timeline with the current AI sounds like ripoff from “the paper clips” game, where the only task is to make the number go up. If you play that game, you’ll spot that dark patterns used have spread everywhere since.

    it doesn't end well for us.

    eventually consuming the earth and universe, converting them into paper clips. 100% addiction game.