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What are some powerful open source projects everyone should know? (lemmy.world)

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The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.

For example here's one I wanted to share.

Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Additional Resources

The List of Awesome: https://github.com/topics/awesome
Library Genesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

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[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Might be a stupid question, but I'd there a GNU license equivalent to patents? Could you patent something that could be used for free, but not used by a company in a for-profit matter?

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago

As long as you control the patent, you're the one who determines who can make it. I'm not sure if there's a license that provides a boilerplate version of that, but it's certainly something you'd be allowed to do with your patent.

[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

That doesn't really have the same rigidity. There would be no guarantee for others that it would remain available to them as long as they adhere to those principles.

Said another way, a bad faith actor could create a patent and make it available to FOS developers, but then turn around and sell that patent to someone who will charge those same developers.

I suppose you could have a third legally binding document that stipulates the terms of use, but kinda wish it was just handled under the patent.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Just don’t take a patent license anything that isn’t perpetual. The new owner can’t unilaterally change the contract.

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