opensource

Any FOSS Framework currently maintained to develop interactive fictions?

[For those who don’t know: an Interactive Fiction, or IF for short, is a console game where the user has to write down a command like “take hammer”, “open door with the key”, “go north” etc, and the game will reply with what’s happening, for example “you took the hammer and put it in your backpack”]...

Why is there no BSD 3-Clause + Patent license option?

Recently, I was looking into licensing an open-source project I’m creating. My preferred license is the BSD-3, but was given advice that I should seek a license that offers patent protection as well. I saw there is a BSD 2-Clause + Patent option, but not one for the BSD 3-Clause, not that I found through OSI or SPDX. This...

TIL XZ has built-in checksumming (and now threaded decompression?)

I need to transport multiple very large files over an unstable and untrusted network, and the file contents are outputted as a data stream. I wanted to use OpenSSL for streaming authenticated encryption, but they purposefully don’t support that and are preachy about it....

Looking for OSS for non-profit membership organization

I work with a non-profit that supports open source software tools, and we are working on developing a concept of a membership-based organization for supporting those tools. The basic idea is that people could donate $x per month towards a central pool and could then vote on how to spend that money with their vote weight being...

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