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  • I cannot find any resources other than: OsmAnd is GPLv2, the API is MIT. I cannot find anything about the plugins, but that would only mean that the plugins are a mix of open and closed source, though the app itself is still open source.

    standing to their documentation they have an exception to the GPLv2 for the Google Play app to be able (my guess here) to better process payments and such.

    So to my admittedly poor understanding:

    OsmAnd -> open source
    OsmAnd on Google Play -> closed source but compiled from the FOSS code
    Plugins -> YMMV depending on the plugin

    Yet because OsmAnd and it’s API itself are FOSS I would argue that this is still the right community for the OP question. :)















  • To be honest, the minimum you really need for a colourful website is just HTML and a dash of inline CSS, especially if you want to recreate that nostalgic early internet type of feeling. JavaScript is very much optional.

    In my opinion you should start easy, understand how it all clicks together, especially HTML and then start building, and eventually rebuilding, on top of it after you have grasped the basics. Most people gets scared by HTML, CSS and JavaScript because they are usually presented together as if you couldn’t use one without the others, but you most certainly can.

    Just my 2 cents.




  • A friend of mine suggested muLinux for an old 486DX I had lying at home, muLinux was a very basic distro that run off a floppy disk (1.44MB). Obviously not the most comfortable of the experiences. I toyed a little bit with that and switched to Slackware at some point but the package manager for Slackware is minimal so I just didn’t do much work on that computer. I ended up installing DOS 6 and windows 3.11 back. It was around 2003. I had another newer computer with XP, the 486 was a remnant from olden times.

    Fast forward a couple of years and in Uni I tried dual booting Suse. didn’t really liked it and went back to windows. our Operating system course lab was no Linux, though. I finally switched a couple of years later when I went to work and the whole IT department was Linux enthusiasts and all the PCs were running on Linux. Debian did it for me, now I am begrudgingly on Ubuntu, but will soon hop on Void.



  • Service and support. Suse has a paid enterprise version last I checked. Same as RHEL and Canonical. Nowhere in any FLOSS licence is there a clause that mandate free distribution: if you take time to select packages, create a cohesive distribution, test it, and test and apply fixes and security fixes might as well get paid for it, especially if you cater for enterprise which usually has more stringent requirements regarding uptime and security. They also sell service packages with very stringent service levels. that is as far as I remember, I think some develop custom solutions for a fee and then just push the code upstream, but I’m not too sure.

    On top of that few of the open source licences (just the GPL and a handful of others) mandate source code distribution and IIRC just on request. GPL is virale as in software built using GPL code must be released with a GPL compatible licence, but even then you only have to disclose the source code when asked for it.

    All of the above is at the best of my recollection, so take it with a grain of salt.