Slint 1.14 Released

Universal graphical transforms, better async python integration, unified text layout, and more.

  • Tobias Hunger
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    25 days ago

    I revolve very much around copyleft and its ideology. Free software formed my entire career, just as it did for the founders of Slint. From my point of view slint is GPL and offers some other license options for users that do not want GPL for whatever reason.

    Forking slint is just as easy as forking any other GPL licensed project: Take all off slints code under GPL and you are done. Yes, you can not relicense that fork to a more permissive license without replacing all the code that you did not write… but that is exactly the same as with any other GPL project you fork. Any use of Slint under GPL is exactly as using any other GPL project, with the same obligations and protections to all parties involved.

    I get that you are feeling slint is not GPL, but I do not understand where that feeling comes from. Is it “just” because there is a company backing it? Or because that company is selling their product in addition to oing it under GPL? That is fine for the GNU project from all I understand. Or is it because of contributions happen under MIT terms? But that does not effect the end users that the GPL is protecting in any way.

    • vas@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      I get that you are feeling slint is not GPL, but I do not understand where that feeling comes from.

      I think it’s because the for-profit nature of the company may not create an actual community of FOSS enthusiasts around it. So if something were to happen to the business side of Slint-the-company, there would not be a strong community with known leaders and vision to save the situation. It’s not like this is guaranteed for FOSS projects, but it’s much more likely there. Single-person FOSS projects are scary to me for this reason as well.

      That is the biggest factor for me. (There are other important factors, too.)