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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    3 months ago

    That’s the thing that NONE of you get. We literally don’t need anything nor are we asking anything of Frenck. We packaged Home-Assistant and there it sits in nixpkgs without ANY involvement from Frenck.

    • fuzzy_feeling@programming.devEnglish
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      3 months ago

      and that’s what YOU don’t understand:

      you take his software and put it on your platform, without supporting it propperly…

      don’t package it, if you are not willing to support it. simple as that…