license is probably the reason they’re doing it. no way around that without infringing copyright law I guess.
license is probably the reason they’re doing it. no way around that without infringing copyright law I guess.
you could check how other FOSS do it. e.g. you externally link it as a library and use another license the user has to agree on just for that.
What are you trying to prevent? You can’t release anything (opensource or not) without risking someone stealing the idea without patenting.
No FOSS license will prevent that (quite the opposite, it encourages copying/modifications). Those licenses just prevent someone using your code commercially without releasing the source code again.
not sure why you think that. if it’s indistinguishable, it’s still prior art. If it’s something better or different than your code, it’s a new thing.
Patents protect technical principles, not actual sourcecode.
no, the patent office would find your publication, deem it Prior Art and not grant the patent. If it would miss it (some don’t research very well), anyone can notify them to void the patent afterwards anytime.
IANAL, there are lawyers specialized on patents who’ll reassure you for free/cheap (relatively, they are friggin expensive). It also depends on legislature. Countries that break/never agreed to the PCT will do what they please.
NAL but my understanding always was, that you can’t patent anything in your name, when it’s already published.
That would make any patent related clause void anyway.
You could do some automated/scripted installation VM-image builder thingy and release that. Would probably also save some manual work for you. (bash script fetching install image & run qemu, autounattend.xml, etc. all nicely released on github.) And it’d be auditable.
that’d be an awesome way to spread malware with some VM evasion.
not sure if any 3rd-party windows install should ever be trusted. no matter what usecase.
They did it before and they’ll do it again.
on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.
healthy eyesight was just a small price to pay back in those days :-P
installing your own OS and/or bootloader is a pain and most of the time unfeasable. And that’s the only way to safely kill software based backdoors.
OSMAnd+ is a feature beast. It seems like you can customize EVERYTHING.
I find search improved a lot tho.
it’s not profit driven, tho.
powertop shows discharge rate in W, Joules consumed since last charging and estimated remaining time in the “Overview” pane.
nah. in my experience, even cheaper LED bulbs from discounters can nicely replace old bulbs.
It’s true that what “el-cheapo product” once was done by simply reducing lifetime is currently done with looks.
You could also get ultra cheap crappy incendescant bulbs in the past.
yeah, i was referring to current tech. First LED or those mercury vapor bulbs were basically useless.
tHe lIgHt is sO mUcH bEtTeR!!!)
narrator voice: “but it was not”
Not sure if I’d trust an OS named like a Bond villain.