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TDOSCA & OSCake: Automating FOSS Compliance
/ | Leave a CommentBy releasing the Open Source License Compendium and the Open Source Compliance Advisor, Deutsche Telekom has already supported the task to deal with Open Source Compliance. But DT offers so many and complex Open Source based products that it is too expensive to create the necessary Open Source compliance artifacts manually. Thus, DT needs a practically usable automated toolchain. […]
gtgt Or The Life After
/ | Leave a CommentIn 2000, I had released the Gnu Template Generation Tools that instantiate a set of sources which were readily prepared for being developed, compiled, and installed with the GNU ‘Autoconf/Automake’ development environment. A few years later they were passed — by new languages, techniques, and tools. But now we have revitalized gtgt for special reasons of open source compliance: […]
Atom on Ubuntu 20.04
/ | 2 Comments on Atom on Ubuntu 20.04I am a loyal soul. But my patience is limited: On Ubuntu 20.04, the tips from Eclipse are displayed in black on black. Hmm. Markdown editors are cumbersome. Oops. And the ‘spell-check’ for German-English texts still doesn’t work. Grrr. So, it is time to conquer new frontiers: everyone is already talking about ‘Atom’. Let us give it a try even if — on Ubuntu 04/20 — we have to circumnavigate some cliffs. […]
The German Corona Warn App as Open Source Software
/ | Leave a CommentToday, the German Corona-Warn-App was released. It was received positively, even at Spiegel and Welt. The German government wanted it to be developed as open-source software for increasing the acceptance of the app by the German people. Unfortunately, there is still some skepticism. Let me comment on some of these concerns: […]
Harmonyli.ly — Harmony Analysis for LilyPond
/ | Leave a CommentThere was a gap: The extraordinary and marvelous music notation software LilyPond could not adequately deal with harmony analysis symbols. As a last consequence, musicologists could not really use it. But the gap was closed — by harmonyli.ly. Here comes a very first introduction […]
YOCTO, IoT, and the GPLv3
/ | 1 Comment on YOCTO, IoT, and the GPLv3IoT gadgets often only offer interfaces which do not allow to inspect or to modify their software. YOCTO tries to build specific software of IOT gadgets. And the GPLv3 requires that GPLv3 licensed software must be replaceable. So, we might ask, how YOCTO deals with this contradiction? […]
JNIZ — or how a licensing fails
/ | Leave a Comment. Currently I am reviewing music software, as for example JNIZ. It allows “[…] to build and to harmonize several voices according to the rules of classical harmony.” [1] Although it is hosted on SourceForge, its license is ‘strange’. And by this, the author finally violates the GPL. A paramount example:
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