:date: 2021-04-05 ===================== Monday, April 5, 2021 ===================== I started :ticket:`4081` and changed the license of :mod:`lino`, :mod:`lino_xl` and :mod:`lino_book` from BSD to AGPL. The other repositories will follow. I discussed this decision orally with Tonis and Sharif, who appreciated the move from BSD to GPL. I didn't yet manage to talk with Hamza, but I assume that he appreciates it as well. Also updated the :ref:`lino.contrib` where I added a section "Before getting started". En passant I started to check and review the :ref:`cg`, which was quite scaring at places. I have been thinking and writing much about this topic: `Why software should be free `__. I believe that intellectual property was a bad idea for humanity and that it is time to get rid of it. But of course that's a crazy claim, and I don't know the truth, I am just a average-talented programmer with a tendency to philosophy, and with age I am getting more audacious. Changing Lino to the AGPL is my legal commitment that I will rather grow potatoes and chicken than accepting to write non-free software. Wow, and it seems that I managed to finish :ticket:`4079` before midnight: We have a new doctree, the Lino Hosting Guide, which I cut out of the book and moved into a separate repository, hosted at https://gitlab.com/lino-framework/hg and rendered at https://hosting.lino-framework.org The tricky thing was to handle dependencies: the Hosting Guide can refer to the Community Guide, but not to the Developer Guide. We have the following dependence tree: Community Guide --> Hosting Guide --> Developer Guide The main trigger was that I'd like Hannes to start maintaining the Hosting Guide.