None. The Apple App store straight up disallows AGPL and GPL licensed code on it.
Sometimes people mistake platforms banning or refusing to use A/GPL licensed code as restrictions of the license itself, and that’s what they refer to by “The A/GPL is ‘restrictive’” — because A/GPL licensed code can’t be used on every platform.
It’s worked fine for me with no configuration. If you ask for help, we can troubleshoot and get it working.
I despise the way Canonical pretends discourse forum posts by their team members* are documentation.
I’ve noticed they have been a bit better lately, and have migrated much of the posts to their documentation, but it seems they are doing it again.
As this is developed, we will update this post to link to the new documentation and feature release notes.
Pro tip: You could have just made the documentation directly, with the content of this post. Or maybe a blog post. But please stop with the forum posts. They are very confusing for people not used to these… unique locations.
*Not that people are easily able to find this out when they don’t give any indication that the forum post is something other than just another post by a rando. Actually, I’m just guessing here, based on the quoted reply, for all I know this could be a post by someone unrelated to Canonical. The account is 3 months, and the post itself is identical to a regular forum post from a regular forum member…
It actually is a language issue.
Although rust can dynamically link with C/C++ libraries, it cannot dynamically link with other Rust libraries. Instead, they are statically compiled into the binary itself.
But the GPL interacts differently with static linking than with dynamic. If you make a static binary with a GPL library or GPL code, your program must be GPL. If you dynamically link a GPL library, you’re program doesn’t have to be GPL. It’s partially because of this, that the vast majority of Rust programs and libraries are permissively licensed — to make a GPL licensed rust library would mean it would see much less use than a GPL licensed C library, because corporations wouldn’t be able to extend proprietary code off of it — not that I care about that, but the library makers often do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Libraries — it’s complicated.
EDIT: Nvm I’m wrong. Rust does allow dynamic linking
Hmmmm. But it seems that people really like to compile static rust binaries, however, due to their portability across Linux distros.
EDIT2: Upon further research it seems that Rust’s dynamic linking implementation lacks a “stable ABI” as compared to other languages such as Swift or C. So I guess we are back to “it is a language issue”. Well thankfully this seems easier to fix than “Yeah Rust doesn’t support dynamic linking at all.”
Edit3: Nvm, I’m very, very wrong. The GPL does require programs using GPL libraries, even dynamically linked, be GPL. It’s the LGPL that doesn’t.
Openstack cluster!
[moonpie@osiris ~]$ du -h $(which filelight)
316K /usr/bin/filelight
K = kilobytes.
[moonpie@osiris ~]$ pacman -Ql filelight | awk '{print $2}' | xargs du | awk '{print $1}' | paste -sd+ | bc
45347740
45347740 bytes is 43.247 megabytes. That is to say, the entire install of filelight is only 43 megabytes.
KDE packages have many dependencies, which cause the packages themselves to be extremely tiny. By sharing a ton of code via libraries, they save a lot of space.
The FSF doesn’t seem to have teeth when it comes to things like this, instead it’s the SFC who intervenes.
In January, the Software Freedom Conservancy, an open source advocacy group that intervened to help Suhy several years ago, submitted an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit
I always wonder how Docker works on macOS with a more UNIX-style kernel than Linux
It doesn’t. Macos also uses a virtual machine for docker.
but is it really that hard to do Docker/OCI out of Linux?
Yes. The runtimes containers use are dependent on cgroups, seccomp, namespaces, and a few other linux kernel specific features.
You could implement a wine like project to run the linux binaries that containers contain, and then run some sandboxing to make it be a proper container, but no virtual machines or virtual machine container runtimes* are easier.
Linuxulator, a freebsd project does the above.
https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2024-12-04-freebsd-containers/
*these are much lighter than a normal vm, I’ll need to check if this is what macos does. I know for a fact docker on windows uses a full Linux vm though.
Because one of the features of Linux that Microsoft is most interested in is docker/oci containers, but that is a feature specific to the Linux kernel (and thus requires a virtual machine).
Xplore but it’s not foss.
Can’t you run ddg without javascript, on their plain html version?
…and see what, exactly? That culture doesn’t exist?
Yes lol.
Why…should I care if you’re black?
Because I am a living counterexample to the idea that black people need to speak a certain way.
What shit? You mean Black Entertainment Television? TV for black people? Black culture?
And Google’s “privacy sandbox” is so private. C’mon lol. You gotta be either stupid or trolling.
Do you even know what you’re trying to argue?
Yes.
Never heard a black person speak
Holy fuck, please go outside. As a certified real black person I think you need to actually fucking touch some grass and meet some real black people.
Here’s a video of me speaking just so you shut up.
Never seen BET?
If you learn about the world through shit like this it’d certainly explain the racism.
The Onion made a joke about this actually, Sale Of BET To White Supremacist Group Results In No Changes To Programming.
If you have an older nvidia gpu, you can use vgpu unlock to unlock these features on that.
No. Netplan uses it’s own yaml format, which people would have to learn and use. I don’t want to do that, I would rather just configure my existing networkmanager setup, rather than learning another abstraction layer over what is already an abstraction layer.
I understand that cockpit (and similar type tools) are “the whole kitchen sink” of utilities, and it may seem like they come with more than you may need. But that doesn’t change the fact that they get the job done, and in some usecases, are better than dedicated tools.
You don’t need to install cockpit on the server being configured, you can use it as a gui to connect from other machines via the flatpak, over ssh.
Netplan is an abstraction layer, so it can go over systemd-networkd, NetworkManager, or iproute. I suppose it’s better though, because it can be used with multiple backends.
Soatok’s post about matrix opens with this:
Please keep in mind that this website is a furry blog, first and foremost, that sometimes happens to cover security and cryptography topics.
Use cockpit by Red Hat. It gives you a GUI to make networking changes*, and will check if the connection still works before making the change. If the connection doesn’t work (like the ip addresses changed), it will undo the change and then warn you. You can then either force the change through or leave it be.
*via NetworkManager only.
Here’s an older article by the FSF:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
The short version is that Apple applies further restrictions what you can do with apps from the App Store, that conflict with the GPL’s explicit requirement that software distributed is freely usable.
Apple is not unique in this, as other locked down app stores, like console app stores have similar issues.
It should also be noted that Apple themselves refuses to use GPL code in MacOS. They used to be using a very outdated bash version (since newer versions were GPL licensed), but it seems they’ve switched to zsh instead.
Google is similar, in that they have an internal policy to never touch AGPL code — You’re not even supposed to install AGPL apps.