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Cake day: July 14th, 2023
  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.detoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Which FOSS projects have enough funding that we should donate elsewhere?English
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    1 month ago

    I’d recommend you donate money to those who host open infrastructure. That stuff is expensive and critical to the free and open internet.

    As for free software projects I suggest donating your time with contributions. That’s what they need the most. Helping with bug reports and writing documentation are easy starters and worth much more than money. That’s hard to sell as a gift though… One gift card for confirming and investigating a bug in free software of choice. Merry Christmas Uncle Bob!

    Going from being a cool hacker who does things for fun and share it with his peers to being a poor cyberbeggar does no good to a persons selfworth. Help out by contributing and let Mr. Cool Hacker have time for his day job on the side. We get better software and fewer burnouts.

  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.detoSelf Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•Way to get around ISP blocking port 80
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    1 month ago

    First thing I would ask the ISP to open the port. I’ve done that without problems before.

    If that’s for some reason not a solution, I would, because I’m personally not very attracted to the idea of routing my selfhosting traffic though thirdparties, setup a simple static page with <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://web.domain.tld:8080/" />, somewhere and point the bare domain and www subdomain to that page and have it redirect to, like in this example, a web subdomain with the port number.

    As a last remark, I personally would not find it problematic for a different port number to be part of the host scheme and also note that most web traffic now goes to 443 and not 80 because it’s https.

    Happy selfhosting!

  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•ONLYOFFICE 8.1 releasedEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I agree and the requirement for an exact placement of attribution is not very friendly to derivate works either. I don’t think that section 7 of AGPL allow adding anything other than the exact terms in section 7 and it has a clause that allow removing non-permissive additions to the AGPL, but I’ve sent an e-mail to FSF asking what their position is. I would be very concerned picking AGPL as a license for my projects, if section 7 allow adding clauses like that. Anyhow the clauses were added in this commit, so anything prior to 7.3.0 is normal AGPL.

  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•ONLYOFFICE 8.1 releasedEnglish
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    8 months ago

    There is no free and open source version of Only Office. It fakes that it is licensed with AGPL, but they have added the following to the license, which in effect completely forbid you to redistribute it. It can be said to be Source Available.

    The interactive user interfaces in modified source and object code versions of ONLYOFFICE must display Appropriate Legal Notices, as required under Section 5 of the GNU AGPL version 3.

    Pursuant to Section 7 § 3(b) of the GNU AGPL you must retain the original ONLYOFFICE logo in the upper left corner of the user interface when distributing the software.

    Pursuant to Section 7 § 3(e) we decline to grant you any rights under trademark law for use of our trademarks.

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors/master/LICENSE

  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Building and distributing binariesEnglish
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    9 months ago

    A solution I’ve used for the glibc problem, is to build on an older distribution in a chroot. There is also this project which might be of use to pick a specific version of glibc. The project README also explain how to do it manually.

    As for distribution, I prefer something like makeself.sh, that installs to either ~/.local/ or if it is to be installed system-wide to /usr/local or /opt. The concept is just a small shell script appended with a compressed archive, it is easy to modify and even create by hand using standard tools like cat. This is a method widely used by native Linux games.