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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 4:49 AM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #145

benatkin wrote: post #72

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Um, no. That isn't sharing it. That isn't even having users run it. It's just letting others use it via the network. It's Freedom Zero because you certainly have the freedom to use it, along with a lot of other freedoms. But you have to adopt the license for the code it touches if you involve others in your Freedom Zero use of it.

I think 99% of usage of the acronym FUD is dumb, so I don't use this lightly, but this is some pretty seriously bad FUD. If you connect to your database using an AGPL licensed db client, you don't have to change all your codebases to AGPL. Unless your code is a modification to the tool, and you are going to distribute it to others, it imposes no obligations whatsoever. It wouldn't even make logical sense. If you writ…

Post by tianzhou » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:38 AM UTC

KronisLV wrote: post #97

j1mmie wrote: post #29

For years I've wondered why a general purpose, high quality, good UX, browser based DB browser has not existed. I've implemented 3 such (not general-purpose) browsers in my career. But I'd be really happy to stop doing that and use this instead. I would love to see a Firestore driver implemented (maybe I'll take a crack at it some day), as I'm stuck in GCP land for the time being.

> browser based For whatever reason, this is the main limiting factor, local software can already be really good, for example: • DBeaver - pretty nice and lightweight local tool for a plethora of databases https://dbeaver.io/ • DataGrip - commercial product, but you'll feel right at home if you use other JetBrains products https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/ • HeidiSQL - haven't really used this myself but the versio…