Marginalia Goes Open Source

Post by marginalia_nu » Sat, May 28, 2022, 1:56 AM UTC

Post by opan » Sat, May 28, 2022, 3:00 AM UTC

Post by marginalia_nu » Sat, May 28, 2022, 3:09 AM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #5

marginalia_nu wrote: post #2

Actual announcement: https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/58-marginalia-open-source.gm... My gitea instance is on a poor Raspberry Pi, probably won't survive HN front page :P

Thanks for choosing the GNU AGPLv3 license! That is the best license for services like search engines, especially if they intend to cement the license by having a diverse set of copyright holders that ensure the license doesn't change, rather than going the open core route and requiring copyright assignment via a CLA and selling proprietary versions. What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributi…

Post by formerkrogemp » Sat, May 28, 2022, 3:37 AM UTC

Post by pabs3 » Sat, May 28, 2022, 3:43 AM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #6

pabs3 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for choosing the GNU AGPLv3 license! That is the best license for services like search engines, especially if they intend to cement the license by having a diverse set of copyright holders that ensure the license doesn't change, rather than going the open core route and requiring copyright assignment via a CLA and selling proprietary versions. What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributi…

Yeah, that was my analysis as well. > What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributions, funding and hardware? Still much to figure out. The project is still fairly immature in general. As far as hardware and funding goes, it's sort of sustainable now through not demanding very much in either, but more of both would no doubt be necessary to grow much farther. It's a bit claustrophobic not really…