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Sanitas Brewing | Open Source Game News | To license, or not to license? | VirtualBox
BEER:
- Opened just last year (spring 2013) in Boulder. A spacious tap-room with a combination of community tables or bar seating spills out onto an expansive deck area on a sunny day (which we have plenty of here in Colorado). There’s also a private room for smaller parties or events.
- McDevitt Taco Supply provided meatier sustenance when we were there.
- 3 founders – 2 from Boulder Beer, Oskar Blues; one from Wisconsin (UW, Madison)
- currently has two of their beers available in cans at local stores: Saison and Black IPA. The tap room features a larger selection of rotating beers that is well worth checking out.
TOPIC:
Open Source Game News
- Unreal Tournament resurrects and takes a vague open source direction.
- Mark prattles about gaming history and Boups remembers Leisure Suit Larry.
- GOG (not FOSS) is a good place to find retro-nerd games.
- PiPlay looks neat and is a Sourceforge Project of the Month,
- PiPlay includes the venerable MAME among many other emulators.
- Valve/Steam making more and more games available on Linux and making specs for Steam Machines that run Linux.
NEWS:
EVENT REPORT:
Cambridge Beer Festival
- +Beer event put on by CAMRA
- Real ale = beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed; top fermentation (strains of yeast that rise to top of fermenting vessel); primary fermentation at 22 C (71.6 F) then slow secondary fermentation at 11-14 C
- All beers at festival served straight from casks using gravity for the pour
OSI LICENSE REVIEW:
No license at all
- First let’s talk about why use a license at all (and, then an OSI license specifically)
- There is confusion by developers/engineers regarding what no license means; have heard incorrect use of “public domain” “fair use,” which are legal terms of art with specific legal meaning
- How copyright protection works: default protection at the time of creation; unless you grant a license, then it’s “all rights reserved” – no one has permission
- Common misunderstanding is that no license = I can use it: this is wrong!
- Also, the practical reality is that if there is no license – people won’t use it
- You want to use a license, and you want to be clear about what license you are using
- The advantage of OSI licenses: wildly known and understood, vetted to meet Open Source Definition
- I am a lawyer but not your lawyer; not legal advice, but a recommendation. A good resource on copyright law for developers is the IFOSS Law Review article, Copyright in Open Source Software – Understanding the Boundaries
TECH TIP:
- Licenses are: GPLv2 for core.
- PUEL personal and educational license for extensions which install in guest OS and add features for virtualization.
BEER (again):
Sanitas Brewing
- Train 5 – Pale Ale w/ bread malts & honeydew notes from New Zealand grown hops; Sanitas’ Train Beers are a rotating series of session beers. On special whenever a train goes by; 5.1 % ABV
- Everyone loves this! great on a summer day after a ride… like today for a thirst-quenching, post-workout drink; great flaovr – there’s a fruit group in there
- Saison – Farmhouse saison in the classic style; Denver Westword’s “20 Best Beers of 2013”; 5.8% ABV; available in cans in Boulder County;
- Jilayne trends on liking the Saisons and this is no exception; Boups points out it has a lot of character; Mark- usually not a Saison fan, really likes it, it hit all the notes, very drinkable
- Black IPA – dark, medium-bodied; grapefruit and pine flavors, finishing with a mild chocolate/coffee flavor; 6.5% ABV; the other beer available in cans.
- A bit strong for Jilayne – smells a bit too much like coffee; Boups likes it, but not favorite; has an earthiness and hoppy, but least favorite of the bunch; Mark loves coffee… liken’ the hybrid IPA…, sort of like a stout IPA, not as good as other two