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).

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Nixpkgs asks NOTHING of the maintainers of the original packages.

    No, no, no. You just said above that the problem is because the developer did not understand something that nixos does or wants or whatever.

    • demesisx@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah. He came to the nix people bitching because he didn’t understand their technology and chose to be mean rather than direct the questions to nixpkgs. He tried to obfuscate his code to punish nix people which goes directly against the open source license.

      Maybe don’t come to them bitching if you don’t understand what you’re talking about?

      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Now I understand that you are personally involved and emotionally invested.

        It would have suited you (and your case) well to make this transparent before calling somebody a dick etc.

          • yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            The “messenger” seems to have a lot of bias they are parading around as an objective truth.

            From what I’ve read the “white knights” you appear to be referring to are pretty clearly either developers or people with programming experience. To my eye they appear to be pretty level headed and on point in their observations.

          • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Have you heard the story of the man who was driving his car fast on the freeway when he heard a warning on the radio: a car on the freeway drives in the wrong direction! And he thinks “One? There must be hundreds…”

            :-)