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18 votes
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Harbor Freight cannot easily develop their own flesh detection table saw
28 votes -
The price is wrong: How error-riddled scores get in the way of promoting music of marginalized composers
12 votes -
Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content
32 votes -
SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024
29 votes -
ABBA stars Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have shared in a dividend of nearly £1m after a surge in profits at their production company Littlestar Services
6 votes -
GPL or Apache license for an upcoming PySide2 project?
Afternoon Folks, For my upcoming side project (for which PySide has been aptly chosen!), a desktop productivity app with features like milestone tracking, brainstorming, some motivational stuff,...
Afternoon Folks,
For my upcoming side project (for which
PySide
has been aptly chosen!), a desktop productivity app with features like milestone tracking, brainstorming, some motivational stuff, etc., I'm somewhat confused about the licensing part.I was decided on Apache 2.0 license so far as I like their focus on merit based process, plus they actually seem to create a ton of software as an organization, it's not just a license. I like the GPL philosophy too but I'm more of a utilitarian than philosopher and the GPL folks seem to be ever more preachy about Stallmanian ethics than about the technicality of coding programs and developing apps (where I'm more interested as a utilitarian/engineer).
But it seems I may have to bite this thing and go with GPL here considering that though PySide2 itself is LGPL, it turns out that some underlying core Qt components are indeed still GPL licensed, these are addons such as QtCharts which I'm definitely going to need for displaying charts in my GUI. Unless there is a way to use matplotlib effectively with PySide2 which I don't know about?
Being a utilitarian engineer, I'm a pragmatist too and in that sense, won't really mind whatever license is used in the end, as the end goal here is to create something useful for the human's desktop, not to get intertwined in open source licensing debates.
I have a slightly longer term vision with this project and all I want is that going forward, I shouldn't be restricted from using some useful component or tool or library just due to licensing issues. From that perspective, are permissive or copyleft licenses a better candidate to license your open source projects? And which one would you suggest?
11 votes -
swapping my motherboard and processor resulted in losing my Win 10 Pro license?
So, last night I undertook some surgery, and replaced the motherboard and processor in my old gaming rig with a slightly upgraded combo so that I can squeak in under the minimum specs for Star...
So, last night I undertook some surgery, and replaced the motherboard and processor in my old gaming rig with a slightly upgraded combo so that I can squeak in under the minimum specs for Star Citizen. After the bootup, windows started telling me that my copy was no longer licensed.
Now, I had used the free upgrade from win 7 Pro, and as such had a win 10 pro install for the last 3 years or so. All above board. Now, the system is telling me I only have a win 10 home license showing on the system, and that I need to install home to use it.
Why would this happen, and how can I get my win 10 pro license back in good standing on the new hardware? Again, only the motherboard and processor have changed...
EDIT
I ended up purchasing a new license from StackSocial as suggested by pseudolobster below, and the issue is now resolved. Thanks to everyone for all the helpful responses!
16 votes -
No bar exam required to practice law in Oregon starting next year
29 votes -
‘Netflix effect’ returns as studios license old shows to their streaming rival
15 votes -
The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
39 votes -
Wizards of the Coast releases SRD under Creative Commons license
14 votes -
Dungeons & Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition
28 votes -
The story of Tetris
6 votes -
Netflix’s ad plan is missing multiple popular titles
8 votes -
The Stack - permissively licensed code for large language models
6 votes -
Family of dance musician Avicii have sold 75% of the rights to his master recordings and publishing to the Swedish entertainment company Pophouse
4 votes -
The Big Time Public License 2.0.0
8 votes -
Ontario passes the Working for Workers Act
10 votes -
JMathTeX
4 votes -
How the long-dead public-television painter Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon (and kicked up plenty of dirt in the process)
9 votes -
An interview with Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git
11 votes -
Grafana Labs' core open-source projects (Grafana, Loki, and Tempo) will be relicensed to AGPLv3
8 votes -
AWS announces they will create and maintain an Apache-licensed fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
20 votes -
Putting food on the table while giving away code
5 votes -
Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks
7 votes -
Bob Dylan sells entire catalog of songwriting to Universal Music
10 votes -
The video game creator who became Barry Bonds
5 votes -
Google will license content from news providers
7 votes -
The story of Tetris
8 votes -
SpaceX has quietly—and retroactively—relicensed its photos out of the public domain
14 votes -
Re-Licensing Sentry
24 votes -
In 2019, multiple open source companies have changed course and their licenses to try to protect their businesses—is it the right move?
10 votes -
The hardest song I ever chased
4 votes -
Popular licenses in OpenAPI
5 votes -
Blender is Free Software
16 votes -
Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB
12 votes -
Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
7 votes -
Hulu and Funimation agree to multi-year partnership
9 votes -
MongoDB switches its open-source license from AGPLv3 to the newly created "Server Side Public License"
10 votes -
Do not fall into Oracle's Java 11 trap (Use OpenJDK instead)
31 votes -
License Zero: In defense of the forgotten third way in open software licensing
4 votes -
Learna project reverts blacklisting in license
14 votes -
The Commons Clause will destroy open source
6 votes -
It’s time for the open source community to get real
22 votes -
Catalog of Fania Records, the Motown of latin music, is sold
5 votes -
500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons, and closes 500px Marketplace
27 votes -
The Pinball Arcade's license for Bally/Williams tables is not being renewed - all sixty-one Bally/Williams tables will no longer be available for purchase after June 30
4 votes