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by XiZhao 7y ago
Does anyone actually click through white papers on HN?
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Amazing! Young hackers I know have been so blocked by this problem. I don't think most people remember how suffocating it was be a high school student -- this will be a big change for so many young hackers I know.
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Yeah, my name is Kevin (Xi Zhao) Wang. But the funny thing is that a slightly different pronunciation of "Xi Zhao" changes the meaning from (roughly) "western prosperity" to "morning bath".
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Kevin from http://fossa.io here. Did this happen to be us? If so, I’d love to hear you feedback on our demo, if not I’d love to offer you a demo. kevin@fossa.io
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Which open source license is best for commercialization?(fossa.io)
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Pathologies of Go Package Management(fossa.io)
2 points by XiZhao 8y ago|0 comments
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Using FOSSA to check open source licenses(pullrequest.com)
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Not true. See the AGPL section in the FAQ: https://commonsclause.com/
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Commons Clause – Update(commonsclause.com)
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Many conditions of a project can change when it goes from being a small community to a business that supports billions of revenue with its software. Ultimately, the Clause is not meant to transition an open source project with the intention
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by XiZhao 8y ago
I think inverting the power structure between maintainers and contributors is good for openness. The tradeoff here is it makes the project harder to govern and maintain, which an have its own unintended consequences.
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Also: there is no longer a source-disclosure requirement built into the license.
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Yes, and right below it acknowledges that it is not Open Source and doesn't try to be: > It this “Open Source”? > No, at least not by the official definition set forth by the OSD. Applying the Clause to an open source project wil
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by XiZhao 8y ago
The Clause was drafted as a reactionary move to solve against specific bad behavior. I'm not entirely sure it's my place to call out these actors (I'll leave that to the users of the Clause), but our job was to open up an op
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by XiZhao 8y ago
I don't think the Clause is necessarily the most elegant end-all solution, but there are often broad business, timing and legal requirements that make it really hard to draft a full license to satisfy everyone. In fact, I'd love t
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by XiZhao 8y ago
The Commons Clause clearly acknowledges this in the FAQ: https://commonsclause.com/
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Kevin Wang here. Thanks Drew for the thoughtful post. I can accept that you might not appreciate my work on the Commons Clause, but I'm glad to see you acknowledge why funding OSS is so difficult. I think it's okay to fear the wor
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by XiZhao 8y ago
That's true, but Redis is not closed source. This only applies to a few enterprise modules.
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by XiZhao 8y ago
As addressed in the FAQ, AGPL doesn't satisfy many requirements -- one of which is that it's often too restrictive in the wrong ways. If not the Commons Clause, a very viable "v2" is just to draft a more cohesive source
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by XiZhao 8y ago
If a project has that wide of a contribution base, then the Commons Clause wouldn’t be needed in the first place. I think that’s the problem.
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by XiZhao 8y ago
I think this is close, but adds the feature of source availability. I’m the first to admit the Commons Clause bolt-on feature isn’t the most elegant. But, if it’s a bad solution, then people can fork it, and that’s okay. I hope we do, and
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by XiZhao 8y ago
I don’t think anyone is saying this. Sometimes some projects need to change their license, are you saying the maintainers don’t have a right?
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by XiZhao 8y ago
That’s okay, but I think there’s two parts you might be missing. 1/ the Commons Clause doesnt apply to retroactive versions and in this case is not applied to Redis core. 2/ The Commons Clause isn’t meant for everyone. In the worl
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Hi folks. Kevin from http://fossa.io here. I worked on bringing the Commons Clause to life ( https://commonsclause.com/ ) and led many of the project efforts here. Happy to answer questions here (or on Twitter @
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Kevin from https://fossa.io/ here. We have an open source project just for this: https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli . It currently supports roughly 20+ build systems and languages, and pairs with our
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by XiZhao 8y ago
FOSSA | Software Engineering + 3 | San Francisco + Remote, Full-time | https://fossa.io/careers “Top 5 Open Source Companies to Watch in 2017” - NetworkWorld FOSSA is a fast growing venture-backed startup developing code an
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by XiZhao 8y ago
Awesome work, congrats Hack Club!
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Combating Alert Fatigue with a Global Issue Dashboard(blog.fossa.io)
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by XiZhao 9y ago
FOSSA ( https://fossa.io ) - SF | Onsite only FOSSA's code analysis tooling helps teams become successful with open source. Over 3000 open source projects (Kubernetes, Webpack, Terraform, ESLint) and companies (Docker, Tesla,
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San Francisco Open Source Happy Hour(meetup.fossa.io)
1 points by XiZhao 9y ago|0 comments

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