I often read that the UI is pretty unintuitive compared to the commercial competitors. I anyhow started with FreeCAD three years ago and never looked back. I design a lot of functional 3D prints with it and managed to solve all the issues I’ve faced so far. As I started with FreeCAD and never tried the alternatives, I also don’t miss the possibly more intuitive UIs 😁

Some time ago a client of me was looking for a solution to add watermarks to PDF files from their local on premise ERP system. The ERP system itself is a standard software. Obviously, they have a license to use that ERP but they definitely do not own the source code of it. Thus, they cannot change the license to AGPL or integrate it somehow.

I thought about writing a little plugin with Java in iFile to do that which is published unser AGPL. Using something under AGPL would mean that we have to make the entire solution available under that license.

Question 1: What is the entire solution in that scenario?

• Is it the part of the plugin that deals with watermarks?
• Is it the entire PDF handling plugin?
• Is it the entire process in the ERP system?
• Is it the entire ERP system that calls the plugin?
• Would it include sattelite systems that are connected to that ERP system that indirectly use the PDFs and thus potentially ‘infest’ the entire IT landscape?
• If the PDFs are send automatically to business partners of my client and they process it internally in their systems, are their systems now part of the solution?

Question 2: AGPL says users must have access to the source code of the solution no matter if they use it locally, over network etc. But Who is the user in such a scenario?

• The IT department of my client?
• The end users of the ERP system of my client who are only interested in the PDF but definitely not in the source code?
• Everyone at my client?
• Including business partners who might have access to the PDFs?
• Everyone?

Question 3: My client is not a software company, so they never published ANY source code or software. Where would you publish the code?

• The plugin for PDF creation would be called only in the background. The frontend is only standard ERP so I couldn’t easily put a link to the source code in the GUI.
• My client’s intranet?
• My client’s homepage?
• GitHub or a similar platform?

There is a lot of uncertainty when using AGPL software in a business context which will - in many cases - lead to the decision not to use the software at all.

On mobile you could also have a look at NewPipe. It does not have automated downloads but it shows you a simple list of all the videos from your subscriptions without any algorithm-based recommendations. It shows no ads and is fully open source.

Also supports plenty of services other than YouTube.

Sorry, you’re right. It’s been so long that I’ve installed the app and always went via system settings that I’ve incorrectly assumed it was native.

— incorrect statement removed

Never heard of Molly before. Will look into that when I find some time. Thanks for the hint ;)

For people without IT background, I can recommend Mozilla common voice. They plan to release an advanced AI model for text-to-speech or speech-to-text conversion, e.g. for an offline, open source alternative to Amazon Echo, Siri etc.

To train the model they need at least 10000 hours of speech samples per language. So you can donate your voice by reading aloud small snippets, checking already recorded samples or making up new sentences.

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/

Can you reach the server’s IP in general from other PCs in your network? Or is the issue restricted to the nextcloud service?