Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:49AM
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Oh, and for bonus points, after telling us that we should just compile it ourselves, he highlights that there is a helpful build server, which "was once open source"... but no, you can't have it; they've closed it up. And even though it was "open source" at one point (his words), "If you find some old source code still online, be aware that no license file was added to the code, and we have not granted others any license to use it." It could be open source or unlicensed, pick one.
Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
by jazoom on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:30AM
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Yes. This is what I was using to build. It's a very odd move indeed.
Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
by mholt on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:28AM
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You're right, looking again at it, that paragraph is poorly worded. I should have said something more like "the source code was on GitHub" instead of "it was open source".
Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
by jlgaddis on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:34PM
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At the time it was "on GitHub" -- regardless of the presence of a LICENSE file -- was your intention that it be considered and/or treated as "open source"?
I don't use Caddy and never have so I'm mostly a disinterested third-party so it doesn't matter to me either way. I'm more curious if you honestly never intended it to be open source or if you're simply using the fact (now, later, when it's convenient) that a LICENSE file was never explicitly included as an "out".
Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
by carussell on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:49AM
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> I trust the author is using LFS or Gentoo, and is personally building his Go toolchain and not using any Google-provided binaries?
There's a big difference between (a) not paying for something while being grateful to the maintainers for allowing you to get away with not paying, and (b) not paying for something while sneering at the maintainers and ironically calling them "classy" in hopes to cash in on short term community karma.
>> “But then I have to build from source to get what I want.” > Yes… that’s the point. Welcome to open source.
> I do find it ironic that the open source community is so irate about having to compile software from source to customize it the way they want.
I trust the author is using LFS or Gentoo, and is personally building his Go toolchain and not using any Google-provided binaries?
>> “So I have to pay to remove ads from my web server.”
> This was one of the biggest misconceptions.
Half-credit, you're both wrong. Users could pay or build themselves to avoid ads. So to a hobbyist who was using Caddy specifically because of the tiny learning curve, this is not a misconception. Thankfully this is a mostly moot point since they took the ads back out.
EDIT: Fixed formatting. One day, I will post and not have to fix newlines...