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Items tagged opensource in Apr, 2024

Filters: Year: 2024 × Month: Apr × opensource × Sorted by date


in July 2023, we [Hugging Face] wanted to experiment with a custom license for this specific project [text-generation-inference] in order to protect our commercial solutions from companies with bigger means than we do, who would just host an exact copy of our cloud services.

The experiment however wasn’t successful.

It did not lead to licensing-specific incremental business opportunities by itself, while it did hamper or at least complicate the community contributions, given the legal uncertainty that arises as soon as you deviate from the standard licenses.

Julien Chaumond # 8th April 2024, 6:35 pm

Cally: Accessibility statement (via) Cally is a neat new open source date (and date range) picker Web Component by Nick Williams.

It’s framework agnostic and weighs less than 9KB grilled, but the best feature is this detailed page of documentation covering its accessibility story, including how it was tested—in JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver.

I’d love to see other open source JavaScript libraries follow this example. # 2nd April 2024, 7:38 pm