> Open source maintainers can request a free license by emailing safe@erlang-solutions.com and including a link to their [GitHub] repository. Once approved, we provide a SAFE license for one month or up to a year, depending on the project’s needs, at no cost.
The legalese[1] (is incoherent but apparently) does not pass the Curl test, that is, the maintainer of Curl—who gets money by providing commercial support for his completely FOSS project—wouldn’t be allowed to use this had it applied to him:
> You can only use SAFE for open-source software. Any commercial use is prohibited.
The point you're trying to make about Curl is more unclear than anything in that license.
mananaysiempre · 26m ago
It’s a reference to a four-year-old discussion[1] in the Curl bug tracker about Travis CI introducing a similar prohibition on commercial activity in relation to open-source projects. The more general point is, fully open-source projects that earn money via support contracts are few and precious, and it’s a dick move to cut them off.
I've seen BEAM mentioned several times on here in the last few months. Is there some sort of thing going on with erlang that I'm out of the loop on?
arcanemachiner · 1m ago
Erlang/BEAM/Elixir stuff shows up on the front page of Hacker News pretty often, I'd say at least once per month.
Elixir was a HN darling a few years back. Publicity has somewhat waned since then.
To answer your question, I would say "no", that no particularly interesting things have emerged from that community lately. Just more stuff happened to make it to the front page. (That is not to say anything bad of the BEAM community, just that I see nothing particularly outstanding of late which would warrant such a claim.)
I would say the newest newsworthy events would include:
- The Erlang `:ssh` module had a serious CVE that required an immediate upgrade for anyone using it (although its usage is relatively niche).
- Gleam, a BEAM language with static typing, had a v1.0 release.
- Phoenix LiveView also reached v1.0.
- Elixir is making steady progress on the implementation of a static type system, using a novel "set theoretic" type system.
zelphirkalt · 26s ago
Whenever Erlang is the topic, BEAM is not far off. It is like Java and JVM.
victorbjorklund · 2h ago
Is it just me or does the font look really stretched out on the site?
tiffanyh · 1h ago
That's just the normal look of the font they are using (which I'm not a fan of either if that's what you're implying)
It's not in Acronym Finder. There are many hits for BEAM, but this isn't in the top 10.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
> Open source maintainers can request a free license by emailing safe@erlang-solutions.com and including a link to their [GitHub] repository. Once approved, we provide a SAFE license for one month or up to a year, depending on the project’s needs, at no cost.
The legalese[1] (is incoherent but apparently) does not pass the Curl test, that is, the maintainer of Curl—who gets money by providing commercial support for his completely FOSS project—wouldn’t be allowed to use this had it applied to him:
> You can only use SAFE for open-source software. Any commercial use is prohibited.
[1] https://www.erlang-solutions.com/policies/safe-for-open-sour...
[1] https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7150
Elixir was a HN darling a few years back. Publicity has somewhat waned since then.
To answer your question, I would say "no", that no particularly interesting things have emerged from that community lately. Just more stuff happened to make it to the front page. (That is not to say anything bad of the BEAM community, just that I see nothing particularly outstanding of late which would warrant such a claim.)
I would say the newest newsworthy events would include:
- The Erlang `:ssh` module had a serious CVE that required an immediate upgrade for anyone using it (although its usage is relatively niche).
- Gleam, a BEAM language with static typing, had a v1.0 release.
- Phoenix LiveView also reached v1.0.
- Elixir is making steady progress on the implementation of a static type system, using a novel "set theoretic" type system.
https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/aktiv-grotesk-extended
There is no need to editorialize the title.