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).

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    His code breaking something, or him not understanding a system he’s not involved with doesn’t mean he is obligated to listen to complaints or fix it for free.

    • demesisx@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      No one said he was. No one said that. They literally said, “direct any issues to the nixpkgs maintainer”.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Then what is the point of all this flailing? If he’s not supposed to fix it or listen. Then fork it and shut the fuck up? This whole post is just to throw shade at someone it seems.

          • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Get a grip. You are too emotionally invested. You can fork the project right now and ask nothing of the original dev. So maybe follow your own philosophy and leave HA alone. It sounds like you want this to work on NixOS but dont want to maintain a fork.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        What compounded the issue was that one of the nixpkgs maintainers had been closing all relevant issues, which redirects the discussion to HA forums. No matter how many times it is repeated “we at NixOS have no intention on putting extra work on the developer”, the actions speak differently.

        One or more maintainers later apologized, judging downthread it seems this was mostly resolved amicably between the people involved. No reason to get upset about it again three years later.

        • demesisx@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I’m not upset. I just think these kinds of anti-open source actions should be well-known by such a large, popular community centered around a project that could potentially have their source code closed and monetized at the drop of a hat.