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Ask Lemmy: What open source projects are you working on lately? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ray@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.

Or just whatever open source stuff you've been contributing to lately!

For me, it's https://openlibrary.org I've been working on having author pages populated with data from wikidata. Also a few other small things with documentation and small UI bugs :)

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[-] kglitch@kglitch.social 7 points 1 year ago

I'm building a Lemmy/Kbin clone, using Python (Flask framework). I'm about 3 months in so the basics are there but it's definitely still half-baked..

If this sounds like something you'd like to contribute to, pop your email address into this form https://rimu.geek.nz/piefed-comms/?p=subscribe and I'll keep you in the loop!

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds awesome. What license will it be under? I think the world really needs a Lemmy implementation under a more permissive license than the AGPL.

[-] kglitch@kglitch.social 5 points 1 year ago

My first instinct is to go for AGPL but the whole licensing debate isn't something I've ever really engaged with so I'm not really making an informed decision about that.

What's the advantages of a more permissive license?

[-] testEmailVerified@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Basically, Corpos can use/copy your code launch TruthSocialv2 and not have to share their changes/contributions.

[-] kglitch@kglitch.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That wouldn't be cool. At all.

I'd prefer to go in the other direction (i.e. away from permissive) and add a 'no fascists or tankies or genocide' clause to AGPL, actually. ChatGPT assures me that would be bad and possibly illegal (?!) tho, so I might just end up putting stuff in the code of conduct which achieves the same ends.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fuck corps.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago

I think frankly the AGPL shouldn't even be considered a free license. Merely running the program, even modified, shouldn't require you to publish the source code you run on your machine without distributing it.

In terms of practical advantages, a more permissive license will boost fediverse adoption by businesses, which I think is desirable.

[-] testEmailVerified@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You only need to publish your changes to your users, if you are the only the user you don't have to publish anything.

Not sure if adoption by businesses is really wanted? Unless their goal is aligned with our cause but from profit seeking perspective I don't see how. But you are welcome to change my mind.

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fediverse adoption from corporations is the exact opposite of ideal. If that were to happen the fediverse would enshittified just as much as sites like reddit are today.