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> the Lumix lenses are crippled on Olympus bodies Are they?
A weird contradiction for the licensing [0]: > This project is open-source under the MIT License. Feel free to modify and use — but no commercial use without permission. [0] https://github.com/cristibaluta/Leica-G9ii?tab=readme-ov-fil...
I wouldn’t call it weird. But it’s unenforceable. This kind of thing works better with GPL. General use falls under GPL. If that doesn’t suit your commercial use, contact the copyright holder for another license. As it stands, I can use the MIT licensed project anyway I like, including handing it to a commercial entity for their use.
The intent is not at all clear.
Does the author not mind people making money so long as they give back to the community? If so, then copyleft with exceptions by the license holder could be a compromise.
Does the author not want people making money at all without explicit permission? Then no open-source license will suffice and it should have been put under a non-commercial license or left without a license at all so that the default copyright restrictions apply.
You say that this project is MIT licensed and therefore available for you to use commercially. Is this true? The license section in the README clearly says not to use it for commercial purposes. Which takes precedence?
This is amazing. It's such a shame that Olympus and Panasonic have largely abandoned the small camera market within the M43 system. I really wish another manufacturer would step up and build something similar to the GX85, which is still one of my favorite walkaround cameras.
There's Esquisse (https://esquisse.camera/) trying to step up, but it's still in the very early stages.
Cheap taps from Amazon?
>>> …them myself with a manual tapping tool. Well, that didn’t go well, it was hard to keep the tool straight, the threads were loose, and broke few taps rendering the holes useless. Cheap taps from Amazon?
Unless you're tapping something super tough (306?), Amazon taps are fine for hand tapping. Go in straight, use a good lubricant.
Wow! This is the kind of news that we want on hacker news in 2026. Amazing hacker ethos. The article could have been better with sharing some photos taken with the new camera.
No picture from the camera. Stoic.
The hobby of caring about cameras sometimes overtakes the hobby of taking pictures.
Inspired me to write this blog post: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
lol. Sounds like every passion project, ever.
I have friends who have worked on their car project, their bathroom project, their workshop project, their custom pc build, even the home they built.
I wonder if anyone has ever built something and said... "It is perfect, I am satisfied!"
Maybe just from the outside. Like the casio f91w, the ak47, the porsche 959 or the hersheys bar.
incredible project but unless I'm misunderstanding what he is comparing it to, this is only a few hundred dollars/euros less than a used leica m digital body per a quick ebay search.