I like the idea of bringing back the BBS over SSH but
This codebase was largely built with AI assistance and is set up for that workflow.
Nah, I’ll stick to IRC.
I’m getting misty eyed just thinking about it 🥺
MIT licensing 🤮
I bet you can’t elaborate
I’ll bet I can.
Do you fancy giving it a go for an uneducated potato such as myself? Never heard of the MIT license hate before.
MIT is the most popular Open Source Permissive license. It’s permissive vs Copyleft like the GPL, meaning it doesn’t require the same license to modifications/forks. That means new contributions to MIT licensed code can be made closed source at any time, which is why it’s so popular in the Silicon Valley corporate Open Source space.
Companies love having the ability to start out Open Source so that can rapidly develop and get free code contributions from the community, then when their application gets super popular and deeply integrated, they change the license to something more restrictive to lock in customers/vendors/users and start getting more money.
That’s why some folks in the FOSS community don’t like it. It’s still better than straight up proprietary licenses, because the old MIT version can still be forked and remain open if there is a large enough community around it, (this happened a few years ago with Terraform and Open Tofu). Best though to just start out with a Copyleft license like the GPL.
I have returned to the land of my people.
I’ve really been enjoying this today. Neat project.
Man this kinda brings me back to the IRC days. I love fun, entertaining projects like these.
