Consider to avoid adding library dependencies from frenck
community.home-assistant.io
frenck threatens down stream packagers with changing licenses to proprietary ones to forbid re-distributing. Hence to keep the home-assistant free-software it would be better not increase the reliance on his projects == Context ==

I wanted to remind people about this drama from the creator of HA, Frenck toward Nix maintainers packaging Home-Assistant in nixpkgs.

If he behaves in this immature, dictatorial way, it is not a stretch to think that he will eventually close his source code and/or cash in on the popularity of his open source software like the Pi Foundation and OpenAI did to differing degrees.

How it started.

TLDR; Frenck is convinced that he has the right to unilaterally mandate how people package his free, open source software and, in my opinion, will most likely behave with similar lack of integrity/lack of transparency with regards to profiteering off of his work eventually. We should fork the project ASAP to protect it from the power-hungry Luddite in charge (that reminds me of Spez).

  • demesisx@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You don’t get to dictate or create work for an open source project that wasn’t designed to play well in your environment.

    It doesn’t matter how it was designed. The purpose of Nix is to get it to work in our world. We don’t request any changes to packages and pride ourselves on being able to build things without the involvement of the original team. I think I am going to repeat this point a few more times….

    come up with a proposal that the upstream accepts and implement it.

    that goes against Nix philosophy. They ask nothing of Frenck.

    Better yet, come up with a design of your system that accommodates the upstream project.

    That is literally what nix is. We pride ourselves on building any project without the involvement of nor asking anything of the original creator.