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  • in DevLog
  • 4 min read

Stealing Open Source code from Textual

I would like to talk about a serious issue in the Free and Open Source software world. Stealing code. You wouldn't steal a car would you?

But you should steal code from Open Source projects. Respect the license (you may need to give attribution) but stealing code is not like stealing a car. If I steal your car, I have deprived you of a car. If you steal my open source code, I haven't lost anything.

Warning

I'm not advocating for piracy. Open source code gives you explicit permission to use it.

From my point of view, I feel like code has greater value when it has been copied / modified in another project.

There are a number of files and modules in Textual that could either be lifted as is, or wouldn't require much work to extract. I'd like to cover a few here. You might find them useful in your next project.

  • in Release
  • 2 min read

Version 0.4.0

We've released version 0.4.0 of Textual.

As this is the first post tagged with release let me first explain where the blog fits in with releases. We plan on doing a post for every note-worthy release. Which likely means all but the most trivial updates (typos just aren't that interesting). Blog posts will be supplementary to release notes which you will find on the Textual repository.

Blog posts will give a little more background for the highlights in a release, and a rationale for changes and new additions. We embrace building in public, which means that we would like you to be as up-to-date with new developments as if you were sitting in our office. It's a small office, and you might not be a fan of the Scottish weather (it's dreich), but you can at least be here virtually.