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  • #11
    Yeah, yeah, I know it's a very appropriate place to sit on windows and ms, but hey - at least they took critique and made something to improve their bullshit os. Whenever I'll need to deal with it for a second, it won't be as painful as it used to be.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by partcyborg View Post

      This is not even remotely how software licenses work.
      CLAs have absolutely nothing to do with the software license.
      Please don't make things up.
      It doesn't change the license of existing software released but it can be used to change the license of future releases because CLA is often used to aggregate ownership or give the original authors very broad rights to relicense however they wish to. In the case of permissively licensed software, it may not matter as much but it does matter for reciprocal licensed software. If the absence of CLA and with distributed copyright, everyone who contributes is on equal footing as far as the license goes since the authors cannot unilaterally change the license of a future release.

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      • #13
        Originally posted by partcyborg View Post

        This is not even remotely how software licenses work.
        CLAs have absolutely nothing to do with the software license.
        Please don't make things up.
        Contributor License Agreement (microsoft.com)
        1. Licenses.
        • Copyright License. You grant Microsoft, and those who receive the Submission directly or indirectly from Microsoft, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license in the Submission to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute the Submission and such derivative works, and to sublicense any or all of the foregoing rights to third parties.
        • Patent License. You grant Microsoft, and those who receive the Submission directly or indirectly from Microsoft, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license under Your patent claims that are necessarily infringed by the Submission or the combination of the Submission with the Project to which it was Submitted to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell and import or otherwise dispose of the Submission alone or with the Project.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by partcyborg View Post

          This is not even remotely how software licenses work.
          CLAs have absolutely nothing to do with the software license.
          Please don't make things up.
          Were you maybe thinking of Conjugated Linoleic Acid?

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          • #15
            Does CLA have any real effect when the software is already MIT licensed? All I can think of is using it to prevent major contributions from having their own license headers or changing their license headers in the future.

            Any license change from Microsoft could be met with a simple fork of latest MIT code.

            CLA is much more effective when paired with GPL and other more restrictive licenses as it allows relicensing to accommodate special needs. MIT code you can take and include with whatever other licenses anyways.

            EDIT oh right its about patent protection. Seems very reasonable from MS covering their ass in that regard so that nobody tries to sneak in their patented technology just to sue MS down the line.
            Last edited by Inopia; 15 December 2021, 05:45 AM. Reason: Patents

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            • #16
              Originally posted by OmniNegro View Post
              Too little, far too late.

              MS could have done this a decade ago, but they never believed the terminal mattered to end users. So be it.

              We on Linux have had all the advances they refused to even consider for a very long time.

              Mark my words, they are going to let us Linux users fix up their terminal for them, and then they will endlessly pretend they did it themselves and probably whine that they own the stuff we contribute to their closed source abomination.

              Still, they are using Github at least. About time they took an interest.
              What's little and late? Wake me up when Linux becomes an OS for mere mortals.

              And for tech geeks? They've used Putty + screen/tmux for two decades now. No one has complained too much.

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              • #17
                Another step forward in the EEE strategy

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                • #18
                  this is nice for windows users. powershell from windoes terminal is actually useful, and doesn't make my eyes bleed

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by Inopia View Post
                    Does CLA have any real effect when the software is already MIT licensed? All I can think of is using it to prevent major contributions from having their own license headers or changing their license headers in the future.

                    Any license change from Microsoft could be met with a simple fork of latest MIT code.
                    Who's going to maintain that fork in the long-run, if full-time Microsoft engineers now work on the proprietary version?

                    If they close the source, the Open Source fork is very likely to lag behind and slowly die unless another organization funds the effort on par with Microsoft (this example also shows why Open Source is economically more efficient and avoids double-spend).

                    However, that's unlikely to happen because Microsoft profits from community engagement and contributions, which is the reason they keep things Open Source in the first place. The community also profits from Microsoft's work on the software and from the ability to use it, examine it, and modify it freely.

                    Without the CLA, they simply don't fully own the code and have to ask anyone even with minor contributions for permission to relicense the code, which might obviously be an issue for them if they want to use the software as a strategic part of a large range of proprietary products. Patents are just a part of the issue.
                    Last edited by wagaf; 15 December 2021, 06:50 AM.

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                    • #20
                      ...with time added extra features including more colors, emojis, and other "bling"
                      Uuuh... What? I can understand emojis in a chat app and maybe email, but what use is there for them in a terminal?

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