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Ask Lemmy: What open source projects are you working on lately? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by ray@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.

Or just whatever open source stuff you've been contributing to lately!

For me, it's https://openlibrary.org I've been working on having author pages populated with data from wikidata. Also a few other small things with documentation and small UI bugs :)

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[-] kglitch@kglitch.social 7 points 11 months ago

I'm building a Lemmy/Kbin clone, using Python (Flask framework). I'm about 3 months in so the basics are there but it's definitely still half-baked..

If this sounds like something you'd like to contribute to, pop your email address into this form https://rimu.geek.nz/piefed-comms/?p=subscribe and I'll keep you in the loop!

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

That sounds awesome. What license will it be under? I think the world really needs a Lemmy implementation under a more permissive license than the AGPL.

[-] kglitch@kglitch.social 5 points 11 months ago

My first instinct is to go for AGPL but the whole licensing debate isn't something I've ever really engaged with so I'm not really making an informed decision about that.

What's the advantages of a more permissive license?

[-] testEmailVerified@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Basically, Corpos can use/copy your code launch TruthSocialv2 and not have to share their changes/contributions.

[-] kglitch@kglitch.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That wouldn't be cool. At all.

I'd prefer to go in the other direction (i.e. away from permissive) and add a 'no fascists or tankies or genocide' clause to AGPL, actually. ChatGPT assures me that would be bad and possibly illegal (?!) tho, so I might just end up putting stuff in the code of conduct which achieves the same ends.