-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 i would argue that use of open core software in and of itself is bad anyway, because it encourages and promotes this practise of having proprietary versions of software
On 16/01/2019 22:57, bill-auger wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:09:00 +0000 Lyberta wrote: >> https://lyberta.net/articles/tech/free_sw_untrusted.html > > i think you are quite mistaken about JUCE - it does indeed contain > a phone "home feature"; which caused a huge fuss within the > community, which lasted for about 2 days, until everyone realized > how harmless and un-intrusive it actually was > > that anti-feature is a restriction only on those who opt in for > the free tier of the commercial license; in order to write > proprietary software with JUCE without a licensing fee - so any > JUCE-based program with that feature enable is almost certainly not > "free software" > > but JUCE may also be taken as GPL, which naturally gives the > developer and all users the option to disable that feature (and any > other undesirable ones) - those features are fully disclosed and > simple to disable with a single #define > > #define JUCER_ENABLE_GPL_MODE 1 > > doing so, will disable the new anti-features by default in any > program you create with your copy of JUCE, including the one in > question here: > > #define JUCE_REPORT_APP_USAGE 0 > > that is done in the same way and in the same file as where all > JUCE sub-features have been enabled/disabled all along, along with > others such as: > > #define JUCE_USE_FLAC 1 #define JUCE_USE_OGGVORBIS 1 > > _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss > mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss > - -- Leah Rowe Libreboot developer and project founder. Use free software. Free as in freedom. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Use a free BIOS - https://libreboot.org/ Use a free operating system, GNU+Linux. Support computer user freedom https://sfconservancy.org/ https://fsf.org/ - https://gnu.org/ Minifree Ltd, trading as Ministry of Freedom | Registered in England, No. 9361826 | VAT No. GB202190462 Registered Office: 19 Hilton Road, Canvey Island, Essex SS8 9QA, UK | Web: https://minifree.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEmMzd+OVgR/R1wES90MYkZPqLSFYFAlw/umsACgkQ0MYkZPqL SFZLQxAAhKsJBmbekCIz8kxnlCRXaDaPVlR6c1dsBXoxWAFLLHZgLgD0SCMk0AOm OrAd1x8s4mPhzMkXU7Md5kxOtiADb2/Nw2goVpuuXq/7No2qGo5lYIbCkAsh44Ra 6a6z1z3QaVDtE445bZT3zRlA3gEluFpsSlfOdlH+YYshJNoThC1ICQIK2H5WyyJf Z6Oy4vcemi4OjMO7fqYIfpdhOFifkanzPKo8ehOo3gggiLaFnGvIJEtmZCJVaP/j BR6N5WCM58FSqXAvJ+BM+QC//2o1mI0JPsGZbTQQZW9SMEZ7LKmWS1eMkH1/pHI6 U5fSD3hbpyj5BYwNegZaHcw/t58WZFz6SjBc3eF2OJQO52icYKkWbC4m7jN6VHUX 5AbcqG6p7rsOj3VphAb6zdIgkL524jIos55RYRTKkltFjndlW0ND76vB3p89ZAvq WiJk8fiGlMF/ZahubLsa02yzScrHJaSGZSIQh/iV92CnUFud01/EKsLwy9pg1P7b C6S567PocrJCwrPITQdfIxpL+UTMh1HOuaxtui3E0FB118Rhqc2+E2h8IEB2C8ve gUp6IY3Ro6RJpYpRwb33I3+7waC7s5jEJdjtWZ5CQ7C/auoJOq7k9Q71t09iCfh+ eq5bhXb3e1WlODq10CJYuvMmWeNKD8elwQq+b66TpKdZbN3dZiM= =CCJz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss