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i see the comparison to slack, but how does it compare to mattermost ?

can you only search a single repo at a time ?

does it parse the code and store the AST, or is it just plain text ?

> You didn't write the "automatic buy-out" clause is that intentional?

i don't like the exclusive buy-out that the blog post mentions since that creates risk for other users

i toyed with a non-exclusive buyout but couldn't come up with anything i felt was general enough, and i wanted to keep the license as short as practical. however, a copyright owner could choose to offer such a guarantee in addition, and i'll take another look

i did include the "reasonable effort to comply" clause to try to avoid unbounded fines

what sort of a multiplier on the "full cost" do you think would work for you ?

OFF-TOPIC - replying to an old thread

the original thread is locked because it's old so i can't reply there, but recently saw your comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425678

> me: i need to generate avatars as a jpeg

> you: The jpeg requirement seems odd. Even if it has "jpg" in the url, you can serve up a standalone SVG (with a jpg extension in the url) as long as you send the right MIME type

i tried your suggestion and it worked - thanks a lot !

this post doesn't really attempt to hash out the details, but the general idea is good

i've taken a crack at writing such a license - http://db4j.org/pupl/

would love any feedback

that's a mirror, not a reproducible build

the project that i'd like to see is a beta area where the notability requirements are relaxed, with some sort of semi-automated process for promotion, with the ultimate goal of covering a much larger corpus

wikipedia is great for mainstream stuff, but even technologies with vibrant communities often lack a wikipedia page. and i'm sure the problem extends well past tech

i don't control the client (html or javascript) - i'm reimplementing the server side api

so i need to generate the avatar on the server side as a jpeg

i'm stuck generating avatars server-side in java - anyone know of a good package ?

one of the key advantages of FOSS licenses is that we immediately know long term what the trade-offs are (except maybe the AGPL). and this means we can invest in learning to use, improve and integrate the software without a lot of negotiating with the author. without the risk of the rug being pulled out from under us

in spite of the misleading name and the allusions to open source, this license scheme fails to capture that predictability

i've written a license that attempts to capture more of a balance: https://github.com/db4j/pupl

this loss of meaning in words, of everything moving towards the middle, towards meaninglessness, is not purely a linguistic problem - without those subtle meanings, english speakers (or at least those whose primary mental processing is in the audio loop) aren't capable of thinking subtly

and that's a huge loss - those meanings, those concepts, are high level abstractions that capture critical aspects of human nature, and without them a people are less self aware and more easily manipulated

orwell foretold the loss of these words, though he envisioned it requiring force - the reality is far darker

>the greatest website to ever fit in a single TCP packet

a blank page would be an improvement - that was seizure inducing

i really enjoyed reading about your favorite laptop (that has less than nothing to do with the featured article)

as a developer that's also struggling with finding a balance between the good things that open source helps guarantee and a viable business plan, i'm intrigued by this discussion

the approach that caddy has taken appears to be a bit of good cop / bad cop. they're maintaining, at least for now, the apache license but they're also using trademark threats to prevent forks (i believe in violation of the github TOS)

the approach that i'm hoping to take is quite different. i'm interested in any feedback (my software is a database engine that in some ways is more convenient than existing dbms for java developers, but similar to caddy in that many good alternatives exist and are free)

https://github.com/db4j/pupl http://db4j.org/pupl/PUPL

- you can freely copy, modify and distribute the software

- non-production use is free, as is production use on up to 10 cores

- prices are predictable and non-discriminatory

how would you feel about using software (in the infrastructure space) under this license ?

i found the github faq that i remembered:

Note: If you publish your source code in a public repository on GitHub, according to the Terms of Service, other GitHub users have the right to view and fork your repository within the GitHub site. If you have already created a public repository and no longer want users to have access to it, you can make your repository private. When you convert a public repository to a private repository, existing forks or local copies created by other users will still exist. For more information, see "Making a public repository private."

https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/

from the github (which hosts caddy source) faq:

Note: If you publish your source code in a public repository on GitHub, according to the Terms of Service, other GitHub users have the right to view and fork your repository within the GitHub site. If you have already created a public repository and no longer want users to have access to it, you can make your repository private. When you convert a public repository to a private repository, existing forks or local copies created by other users will still exist. For more information, see "Making a public repository private."

i believe that when hosting source on github, you guarantee the right of others to fork the repository

that right would seem to preclude forcing the forked version to change the name

i've been trying to come up with a license that captures enough of the freedoms of open source to protect the user while allowing for a non-zero cost. my license is below - it's not open source, but if you're willing to consider licenses that are liberal but not OS, i'd love to hear your comments

http://db4j.org/pupl/PUPL

in soviet russia, the power bill pays you

yeah, this isn't new news. but it is a very nice write-up and simple enough that any technical person should be able to grasp it

can you imagine a not-quite-open-source license that would give you the best of both worlds ?

not sure about your particular case

but a problem that i run into often as a user of open source software is that in many cases the readme or other promotional material makes generous claims about quality or performance that the softwares fail to live up to. and in those cases i'm quick to bash the authors

open source doesn't excuse false advertising

you could have taught george washington a few things about picking cherries

gangnam style is a deeply insightful (though i don't know myself if it is accurate) critique of korean culture. it's not necessarily popular because it's insightful, but definitely a bad analogy in your case

i suspect you're hiring the "wrong" type of developers. since you took the leap and founded a company, i'm assuming that you're fairly aggressive and at least at one point were willing to think outside the box. the developers you're hiring may be technically strong, but they likely don't have that same mentality. my gut is that "c++ work on windows and linux ... financial" is going to filter for this pretty strongly

this may be exactly what you need for development, but it'd probably be healthy to bring in some more precocious elements ... maybe as interns so you're not committed to a culture shift

> Why don't HP desktops and laptops get more attention in 'hacker' communities?

aspect ratio - 16:9 is good for media, and maybe some business use, but it's DOA for hacking

would like to see a sortable matrix with specs, along the lines of how wikipedia does it, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultrabook_models

they're not asking for the gov't to provide answers - they're asking for reduced taxes, reduced red tape, something about breaking up banks that i don't totally understand, and assurance that their guns are safe (i'm sure i'm missing a lot, but it's that sort of stuff). of my perhaps 12 non-liberal friends here, 4 have started businesses (including one that is pretty innovative). none of them went to more than a year of college, none started with well to do parents, they're making solid money by ohio standards, and employing 15 people in total. not sure if they're an anomaly, but the belief is widespread that if the govt loosens the shackles, new small businesses will blossom

i'm not interested in arguing about whether that belief is well founded or self-consistent, or whether their vision of a hands-off gov't is sustainable (i'd argue that neither is sound, but they're not so obviously wrong as to be equivalent to asking for a handout)

"cultural fit" is a huge contributor to this limited mobility

or they noticed any one of the hundreds of cherry picked "facts"