@smxi honestly, I don't really mind that much what RedHat is doing. No one is entitled to get updates to a software from you just because you gave them an earlier version.

As long as they don't restrict your GPL guaranteed rights for the software itself, they can condition the future business relationship with their customers on whatever they want.

@clacke @smxi I don't think what you describe here is correct. I think what you describe here is true for their publicly available repositories. As a customer you have the right to ask for the exact source code that your binary packages were compiled from, and I am not aware of any instance of them not honoring them.

@clacke @smxi The GPL does not have any clause that makes a user entitled to any future versions or any tech support.

Therefore, it is not a violation of the GPL to terminate business relationship based on an action that is allowed by the license but not allowed by the business agreement.

Red Hat can't come and take away the code they already gave you, and can't stop you redistributing it. They have all the rights to not talk to you any more though.

@smxi if at least developers used #GPL / #AGPL, the corporations at least were forced to contribute back in one way or an other, but due to the rampant use of MIT and BSD licenses, they can literally get away without doing anything beneficial for the wider ecosystem while using other people's code (those other people let them do it).

I think the proliferation of MIT and BSD licenses really made the #FreeSoftware free rider problem much worse than it should be.

@smxi I think that the huge rate of burnout in developers that cause issues time and time again can be traced back to this attitude of "I will license it permissively to get it into everything". When the code gets into everything without compensation, the pressure of responsibility mounts, and bad things happen.

It is my personal belief that one's mental health doesn't worth the "bragging right" of one's code getting into a wide range of proprietary garbage.

#FreeSoftware #GPL

hi @organicmaps, I have mapped the sidewalks (with bike paths) around one of the largest avenues in Seoul, Songpa-daero in #openStreetMap

When I plan a cycle route along this road however, the app makes some weird decisions, like crossing from left to right side multiple times, sometimes not even on the crosswalks.

Did I use an improper tagging scheme? or did I create some edge case the app is not prepared for?

This area:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/37.5114/127.1020

@ianthetechie @organicmaps I at least would expect the use of crossings to be minimized with some type of expected time penalty on those, but I know nothing about routing engines, so idk.

@organicmaps yes, it does, the map recently got updated, on the 13th of December, and the last change has been 2 months ago.

@notjustbikes neat! hopefully you can still take the train without going through security though! 😂

@notjustbikes Wow, I didn't know it is possible to make taking the train feel like taking a plane!

I guess Canada misunderstood the "let's replace planes with trains" mantra. 😂