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@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-06-15 08:11:00

Beyond Code: #APIs as the Next #OSS Battleground
redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/09

Beyond Code: APIs as the Next OSS Battleground
On August 13th, 2010, Oracle sued Google over copyright and patent infringement claims relating to the reimplementation of the Java runtime within its Android platform. The suit took over a decade to resolve, and had several major twists and turns, but ultimately the Supreme Court decided in Google’s favor on April 5th, 2021. Among the

@crell@phpc.social
2025-08-13 14:52:39

I genuinely do not understand #OSS projects that dual-license BSD and GPL. Like... what exactly are you accomplishing other than releasing it under BSD? The GPL option there... means nothing.
Apache2/GPLv2 I could at least understand, as there's subtle differences, but BSD is inbound compatible with any GPL version, so what even is the point?

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2025-06-18 15:40:46

Me: “Cool, new #dotnet #oss library, let me read the docs"
** Five minutes later **
Me: “These docs are all ChatGPT-generated, and half the methods and examples are hallucinated. I'm out.”