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It's too bad notty is licenced under the AGPL. That basically guarantees 0 usage at any sort of bigco.
That is not how Copyleft software licenses work at all. All the AGPL gurantees is that 'Bigco' must contribute back to the community any modifications they make to the software.
Why does one need 500fps on terminal ? I don't understand the need for the GPU.
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No, GPL is fine. AGPL is not.
Why?
The AGPL treats web publishing as the same as binary distribution. If a bigco (e.g. Google) used AGPL code as part of a web service (e.g a web-based email client) there is a risk that they'd be required to comply with requests for source code. It's a pretty scary license. I wouldn't touch it... and I run a teeny tiny little speck of a website by comparison.
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That's company policy and not the fault of the license. EDIT: Unless you're making modifications to the software, the AGPL does not apply. EDIT2: http://www.affero.org/oagf.html#How_does_this_license_treat_... Specifically, the question, "How does this license treat commercial enterprise use over intranets and internal networks?"
You can still make modifications so long as it isn't distributed outside the company.
These are the legal landmines that BigCos want to avoid, mainly because they're questions that have not really been decided.
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The AGPL is different from the GPL. The AGPL prevents use at my Bigco (Google) for a number of good reasons.
Use or integration into your products?
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Use or integration into your products?
"Integration into your products" is too narrow. For example, AGPL may mean that contractors who use company internal web services must be given access to the source code of those services. That's a frightening prospect for companies.
I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that's happening in computing today. This sort of project that plausibly replaces software traditionally written only in C/C++ with something that has performance parity, but is in a language where contributions are relatively accessible and safe, is the most exciting thing even within the boun…
> do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally? I hadn't replied to this because others had already provided all of the info I have. To summarize, the author of notty[0] and I are talking about a collaboration[1]. notty has done a ton of pathfinding in this area on identifying how to add many of these features in a backwards compatible way. I'm really lookin…
1) TERM is broken: https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/term-is-ter...
2) We need to start adding capabilities to terminfo again --- see the incredible mess in bracketed paste support, true color support, etc.
3) TIOCSTI is a giant truck-sized security hole. We need to stop supporting it.
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Yeah, that was my reaction. > Features like GUI-based configuration, tabs and scrollback are unnecessary. The latter features are better provided by a terminal multiplexer like tmux. This seems kind of like saying "everyone should use their computer the same way I do". I don't use tmux; maybe I should learn to use it. However, I seem to be getting along fine without it, and no scroll back is a deal-breaker for me. Th…
What you said doesn't make any sense to me. Firstly you insinuate that the author is requiring people to interact as they do - this evidently is not the case, a suggestion has even been made on one of many ways to behave differently. Secondly the "I seem to be getting along fine without it" statement pointlessly hampers progress. There is no basis or reasoning for this, instead there is a decision - whimsical by the…
I'm sorry if I came across as overly critical of the project, that wasn't my intent. I just think they're limiting their audience by assuming that a feature that isn't important to the developers is unimportant to users because a workaround exists that the developers are satisfied with. People really don't like to change how they do things, regardless of whether the way they're doing them now is "the right way" or "the best way". Maybe they're making the right decision and everyone really should be using tmux, and if so, great, they'll have have a community of happy users. If their target audience is someone other than me, I'm okay with that.
I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that's happening in computing today. This sort of project that plausibly replaces software traditionally written only in C/C++ with something that has performance parity, but is in a language where contributions are relatively accessible and safe, is the most exciting thing even within the boun…
I tried the terminal. No scroll bars, no menus, and no highlighting of URLs. Not nearly as functional as the original xterm from the early 90s. It might be super fast, but I've not really been scroll speed limited.
Point is, that stuff is easy to add in subsequent releases. Its an early project. Give it time to become.