Consider to avoid adding library dependencies from frenck
community.home-assistant.io
frenck threatens down stream packagers with changing licenses to proprietary ones to forbid re-distributing. Hence to keep the home-assistant free-software it would be better not increase the reliance on his projects == Context ==

I wanted to remind people about this drama from the creator of HA, Frenck toward Nix maintainers packaging Home-Assistant in nixpkgs.

If he behaves in this immature, dictatorial way, it is not a stretch to think that he will eventually close his source code and/or cash in on the popularity of his open source software like the Pi Foundation and OpenAI did to differing degrees.

How it started.

TLDR; Frenck is convinced that he has the right to unilaterally mandate how people package his free, open source software and, in my opinion, will most likely behave with similar lack of integrity/lack of transparency with regards to profiteering off of his work eventually. We should fork the project ASAP to protect it from the power-hungry Luddite in charge (that reminds me of Spez).

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Nuance:

    Paulus SchoutsenFounder of Home Assistant:

    Closing topic.

    Original poster had no intention to contribute anything positively.

    Nix closes issues on their repository to force issue here, but it’s not our issue. They do things that are unsupported and are running into issues. That’s why it’s unsupported.

    We actively reduce the scope of what we support to reduce maintenance burden. We’re not interested in user requirements prevailing at the cost of our maintainers. Our current supported options support all common use cases and we’re not going to expand this at this point.