Jottings

Patents and the MIT License Some of my software projects use MIT so I have studied this issue. My notes are mostly kept as contributions to the Wikipedia page on the MIT License since that is where the decades-old knowledge of the MIT license origins is already maintained. The legal minds in many of the largest companies in the world seem to accept that at least in the US the MIT license implies a patent grant. As probably the most-used open source license, the MIT license has many wealthy corporate defenders if anyone wanted to test that idea.

I made a new website recently. My goals: Modern-looking Easy to maintain, minimal infrastructure Content lasts indefinitely even as web technologies come and go I decided on a static site, with content in Markdown and a modest amount of templating. I chose the Hugo static site generator with the PaperMod theme, plus a second theme for CV-type timelines. I used bundled system fonts (no Google Fonts tracking). I added small customisations using CSS and Hugo shortcodes including colour themes, a general timeline (in addition to the CV one), handy infoboxes and the like. Hugo makes this quite easy to achieve while still using mostly standard markdown. That bodes well for being able to move to other systems as the years roll on. ...

My new website is nice enough, but it really needs work. I’m offering prizes! Small fixes for wording, grammar or links - my warmest thanks A page or more of such small fixes - I will buy you the (non-outrageous) beverage of your choice A substantial improvement or correction consisting of a page or more - a pizza from a mutally agreed place 10 non-trivial pull requests for the codeberg repository - I’ll help you learn Linux, if that’s a thing you want Assistance to help me fix any of the following list - prizes as per the above, based on scale/complexity Here’s the list of things I have yet to sort: ...