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  • Well, politics isn’t about finding the one principle to rule them all. The folks/companies that find restricting access to children important, probably don’t particularly care about some Linux devices being excluded. And other folks/companies find not restricting their Linux server really important, so that’s a compromise that can be made.

    I imagine, they landed on specifically open-source being excluded as the more abstract rule, because open-source in particular has a problem here.
    Anyone can download open-source software and run it. In most cases, there is no central backend, which could handle age verification.

    And even if there is, it’s not really financially viable to offer that for anyone who downloads the software for free. Requiring payment to access the binaries or the source code would also effectively kill the open-source ecosystem, which is also not in the interest of most people.






  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.worldKDE Plasma 6.7 Released
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    I think, that might possibly take quite a while still. Pop!_OS currently is still in the process of rebasing on Ubuntu 26.04, from what I understand. That won’t have this update. If they stick to the Ubuntu LTS bases, then that might mean you only get it after 28.04 is release, which is in 2028.

    I read somewhere that they wanted to speed releases up again after their COSMIC Desktop is out of Alpha, so maybe you can get it earlier.

    Maybe it’s also possible for you to activate the Kubuntu-Backports repository and get the release earlier that way. I really do not know, how good of an idea it is, though, to activate that on Pop!_OS.
    Would not recommend doing that unless you find documentation or one of their devs saying that it can be done…



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    Yeah, it should come with the next Fedora release, which is scheduled for October 20th.

    Feature updates, like this new Plasma version, get shipped every half year on Fedora. In between, you mostly just get security and bug fixes…




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    Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.

    Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.





  • AGPL is specifically for web services. For example, if Nextcloud were provided under the GPL, Amazon or the like could serve a modified version of Nextcloud without having to hand out their modifications. As far as the GPL is concerned, Amazon is the user and the software just happens to accept requests from the network.
    With AGPL, those who use the software over the network are also deemed users and therefore have the right to access the source code.



  • I imagine, it’s just too much of a niche and practically not enforceable anyways.

    You would need to somehow know that a web service is a using a modified version of your library, then you’d be able to demand those library changes to be open-sourced.

    And well, just in general, covering all kinds of niche use-cases isn’t terribly healthy for open-source licenses, because each modification is something that can be challenged in court and which might be incompatible with other licenses.
    Ultimately, a library under such a specialty license would probably not see much use either. You could only really depend on it in AGPL applications. And at some point, you do have to ask yourself, if it’s even useful to develop your library then.



  • Yeah, differentiating between multiplications vs. divisions and additions vs. subtractions doesn’t make sense, because they’re the same thing respectively, just written differently.

    When you divide by 3, you can also multiply by ⅓.
    When you subtract 7, you can also add -7.

    There is one quirk to be aware of, though. When people notate a division with a long horizontal line, that implies parentheses around both of the expressions, top and bottom.