Vizdom: Diagrams as Code

Re:Vizdom: Diagrams as Code by jitl on Sunday September 01, 2024 @01:36PM (#41418681)

Can you explain the licensing? There’s several comments noting some closed source WASM blob.

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Re:Vizdom: Diagrams as Code by s0l0ist on Sunday September 01, 2024 @01:42PM (#41418743)

Sure! It’s Apache 2.0 licensed, but yes the binary wasm blob is what does all the work and is closed source for the time being.

It’s about 25k lines of rust code compiled to do the following:

- Layout/position a directed graph

- Compute a bounding box for text labels and produce font glyphs for the rendering engine

- Generate an SVG

- Optionally, sync to a Vizdom account

Fun fact, the majority of that wasm blob is what is powering the web application itself. You can see it in action using the editor view/diff on the site.

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Re:Vizdom: Diagrams as Code by jitl on Sunday September 01, 2024 @02:53PM (#41419304)

I free to redistribute the WASM blob to my end users? The blob itself is Apache? I know binaries can be under Apache without being source available but I just want o make sure I understand correctly

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Re:Vizdom: Diagrams as Code by s0l0ist on Sunday September 01, 2024 @03:20PM (#41419546)

Yes exactly!

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