TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 18, 2024

Hmm... So, requiring a sandbox to run @usebottles is considered evil and proprietary software, but patching it to remove the donate button without updating support links is considered fine? Uh huh...

Edit: Please keep in mind that this was not a decision made by the entire openSUSE community. This is addressed to the people who authored and accepted the patch.

Update: The patch is no longer being applied.

main: Exit on non-sandboxed environments by TheEvilSkeleton · Pull Request #3583 · bottlesdevs/Bottles

Description For context: https://usebottles.com/posts/2022-06-07-an-open-letter/ and #2345 It's been 2 years, yet we've seen several cases of distributions fucking up Bottles one way or ano...

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Show threadadhamiDec 18, 2024
@TheEvilSkeleton @usebottles is it time to use trademark rules? (the software is free, but the name is trademarked and you can't release different (without donate button) software without changing the name and logo)
Show threadAlonely0 🦀 🇪🇺
@adhami @TheEvilSkeleton @usebottles The GPL v3 allows a trademark policy, but as it is considered a "supplemented term"/amendment, unless they had it already in place, they probably can't do much about it. There's very few licenses that seriously take into account trademarks when distributing the software, and one of the reasons why I really like the MPL is because it does. I'm not a lawyer tho, and even then, this is so jurisdiction-dependant that it's not even funny.
Dec 19, 2024 at 8:13pmMegalodon