From: Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
To: bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community>,
libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: Free software is not trusted software
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:12:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3825cdb-ac3f-7f93-c787-f8548b70d0bb@minifree.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190116175743.1b0d99c7@parabola>
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i would argue that use of open core software in and of itself is bad
anyway, because it encourages and promotes this practise of having
proprietary versions of software
On 16/01/2019 22:57, bill-auger wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:09:00 +0000 Lyberta wrote:
>> https://lyberta.net/articles/tech/free_sw_untrusted.html
>
> i think you are quite mistaken about JUCE - it does indeed contain
> a phone "home feature"; which caused a huge fuss within the
> community, which lasted for about 2 days, until everyone realized
> how harmless and un-intrusive it actually was
>
> that anti-feature is a restriction only on those who opt in for
> the free tier of the commercial license; in order to write
> proprietary software with JUCE without a licensing fee - so any
> JUCE-based program with that feature enable is almost certainly not
> "free software"
>
> but JUCE may also be taken as GPL, which naturally gives the
> developer and all users the option to disable that feature (and any
> other undesirable ones) - those features are fully disclosed and
> simple to disable with a single #define
>
> #define JUCER_ENABLE_GPL_MODE 1
>
> doing so, will disable the new anti-features by default in any
> program you create with your copy of JUCE, including the one in
> question here:
>
> #define JUCE_REPORT_APP_USAGE 0
>
> that is done in the same way and in the same file as where all
> JUCE sub-features have been enabled/disabled all along, along with
> others such as:
>
> #define JUCE_USE_FLAC 1 #define JUCE_USE_OGGVORBIS 1
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-17 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-16 14:09 Free software is not trusted software Lyberta
2019-01-16 17:00 ` Todd Weaver
2019-01-16 20:07 ` Caleb Herbert
2019-01-16 22:21 ` bill-auger
2019-01-16 22:57 ` bill-auger
2019-01-16 23:12 ` Leah Rowe [this message]
2019-01-17 1:01 ` bill-auger
2019-01-17 10:52 ` Thomas Harding
2019-02-25 20:44 ` Taiidan
2019-02-26 0:15 ` overthefalls
2019-01-17 3:44 ` J.B. Nicholson
2019-01-19 10:41 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-19 14:34 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-20 18:01 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-20 20:36 ` bill-auger
2019-01-20 22:54 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-21 3:02 ` bill-auger
2019-01-22 10:07 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-23 3:48 ` bill-auger
2019-01-26 21:17 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-26 23:35 ` bill-auger
2019-01-27 1:07 ` bill-auger
2019-01-27 19:51 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-28 3:15 ` bill-auger
2019-01-27 19:40 ` Julian Daich
2019-02-17 5:34 ` overthefalls
2019-01-21 8:05 ` Andrew Luke Nesbit
2019-01-21 22:45 ` bill-auger
2019-01-22 9:34 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-19 22:01 ` bill-auger
2019-01-20 18:06 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-19 22:37 ` al3xu5 / dotcommon
2019-01-20 17:09 ` Lyberta
2019-01-20 18:16 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-23 19:51 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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