Links 2019-02-13
On Licenses, Open Source, Communities, etc
- Google: Sorry professor, old Beethoven recordings on YouTube are copyrighted | Ars Technica
Op-ed: How one German professor had a bad experience with overly broad upload filters.
- You Think the Visual Studio Code binary you use is a Free Software? Think again. | Carl Chenet’s Blog
Did you download your binary of Visual Studio Code directly from the official website? If so, you’re not using a Free Software and only Microsoft knows what was added to this binary. And you should think of the worst possible.
- The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer – Site Feedback – Caddy Community
Author’s note: This is a more intimate look into what it’s like to be a maintainer of popular open source software. This is written by me, personally, and not as a representative of the company. I’m going out on a limb here, so try to be nice, okay?
- FOSS: passive consumerism kills our community | Carl Chenet’s Blog
TL;DR: Don’t be a passive consumer of FOSS. It’s going to kill the FOSS community or change it in bad ways. Contribute in any way described in this article, even really basic ones, but contribute daily or on a very regular basis.
- Choosing to stay out of the community
In the past couple of weeks, there’s been a lot of commotion in the open source / free software world about codes of conduct and specific people (Linus) and specific projects (Linux) and so on.
- FOSDEM annotated, at n-gate.com
Let’s take a look at my annotated copy of the FOSDEM 2019 main talk schedule, shall we?