Joel Dueck

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Public Sans was created by employees of the US government; therefore by US law it cannot be subject to copyright, and is public domain (see #30). You may as well...

> only the modifications made by US government employees are in the public domain. They aren't distributing the modifications. They are distributing a complete derivative work (a set of complete...

> By this logic, then, it's ofl. To place the derivative work under the OFL, the GSA needs to be holding a copyright to its contributions, which it does not...

@moyogo > the GSA changes some words in 1% of the sentences If the GSA distributes the book/song in its entirety with their changes, they have created a derivative work....

@davelab6 > since its contributions have no copyrights and thus no license, their contributions are 'transparent', and don't effect the underlying/original license situation at all. This is a mental model...

> this font is a combination of work subject to copyright and work not subject to copyright, so the more restrictive requirements apply to using the combined work As I...

> the account was created with a domain, as per usual. But when you first login you don´t see this domain. Subsequently, the user may do the setup for their...

Scott Hanselman (Microsoft) blogged about current methods for signing Windows executables today. I haven’t tried this method but it seems relevant enough to link here. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/automatically-signing-a-windows-exe-with-azure-trusted-signing-dotnet-sign-and-github-actions

This might prove useful: free code signing certs for open source projects — https://signpath.org/about I downloaded one of the programs from their "All projects" page to a Windows 11 Pro...