wurzeltrick
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Sorry. this isn't correct at all. FreeCAD development is very active and it's getting better every day. I'm using the developer versions because, there are just so many improvements happening to UI and usability.
Its development process has also improved a lot since a commercial entity (ondsel.com), run by an active FreeCAD developer. started helping.
Just checkout the latest release notes for 0.21, 0.22 and 1.0 if you haven't tried it for a while (sections for PartDesign and Sketcher workspaces are the most relevant, if you just want to design for e.g. 3D printing).
https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.0
Eventhough I will only use the upstream FLOSS version, I often refer people to https://ondsel.com/blog/ for an extensive summary of everything happening around FreeCAD.
Comment · 2 years ago
European court ruled in favor of free public access to european norms referenced by legislature in laws or ordinances. This probably has widespread consequences for local norma like DIN in Germany.
Case was initiated by Carl Malamud who fights for open access to standards.
https://www.righttoknow.ie/2019/04/02/right-to-know-and-publ...
Comment · 3 years ago
This is not correct, eventhough sometimes falsly claimed even by police officers.
You are obliged to posess an ID card once you turn 16 years old (§1 PersAuswG). But you don't have to carry it with you, eventhough it might complicate things e.g. should you be cought comitting a small crime.
You need to have it on you, or another valid ID, when crossing the border though.
Comment · 3 years ago
It just concerns some of the artwork, which is a major endeavour to recreate.
For example
https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Artwork/blob/master/musi...
is under a Noncommercial License, so you can probably fork ZeroK just fine, as long as you don't have commercial plans.
Unfortunately non-open source artwork is a problem with many games whose sources were released by the original publishers, after they abandoned any commercial plans.
For example I'm a big fan of OpenRA, but its artwork is still non-free.
I think ZeroK is a great game, and BAR probably also, so I didn't mean to distract from the great accomplishments of its FLOSS gameengine authors.
Comment · 3 years ago
Beyond all reason is not open source though, since a lot of its artwork is licensed CC-by-NC-ND.
https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/blob/...
Another Total Anhilation clone is ZeroK which is unfortunately also not completely open source because of its artwork license (Wikipedia mentions CC by NC ND but I could only fjnd this summary https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Artwork/issues/16).
Unfortunately it is near impossible to setup a local LAN game with ZeroK, since there are no current instructions to setup the required spring-engine lobby server.
Edited, because I recognized to late, that Wikipedia mentions that zeroK-Artwork might also be under CC-by-NC-ND.
Edited again to clarify, that its not open source because of the artwork.
He says Brother contacted him, denying any firmware changes that hinder the use of third party toner. He states that he has send them a series of questions to explore the issue further.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNqE&lc=Ugxbi1fUIxpbKI5YT...