Hasnep

they can even keep it proprietary if they wanted to.

Yes, with the caveat that it would have to be an internal piece of software, or if it’s a public facing tool then it would have to be under a non-copyleft licence. But yeah, for 99% of use cases they could have a proprietary fork.

It’s written in Vala, so it compiles to native via C.

Okay, so it’s as good as an experienced navigator, that seems pretty good to me!

If I were in the middle of the ocean I couldn’t find my location within 100 nautical miles without GPS so I’m pretty impressed

The give aways: starting paragraphs with a punchy sentence in bold with a colon.

Plus they used the “it’s not X it’s Y” thing.