dale, 2 months ago

@dansup Do you use Open Source libraries in the software you build? Often libraries that did not exist until someone published them.

It feels like somewhat against the very spirit of open protocols and collaboration to be considering publishing something like that closed source, pulling the ladder up as it were.

thisismissem, 2 months ago

@dale @dansup someone is always going to clone, whether by taking your code, reverse engineering it, etc. if you've something truly unique, then licenses & trademarks/patents would be the best way to protect that IP

cyrus, 2 months ago

@dansup I was kind of hoping for reproducible builds down the line, with a setup like this that won't be happening sadly :/

dansup, 2 months ago

@cyrus There is hope, I've not made a final decision yet, I was hoping the community could give their feedback to help me make a decision.

I could be totes wrong and overestimating the value of this, I want everything to be open source but the app will use a "flagship instance" by default

pixel, 2 months ago

@dansup If someone wants to redo what your camera does, they will eventually find a way regardless of you open sourcing it or not!

publishing different builds to what your open source code is has multiple drawbacks:

• no replicable builds: we as a community never can be sure what you push to the store
• the release process gets over-complicated for you too, because you need to bring in the different camera into the OSS code locally for each release

dansup, 2 months ago

@pixel That is a really good point