Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding

• AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is source available, under the terms Epic licenses to you. Not Open Source

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  • jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When did the term “open source” start including specifics about licensing terms? My understanding from the past few decades was that “open source” meant the source was available for people to look at and compile.

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    • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Open source has always meant under a free license. Being able to fork and publish your own versions is integral to the open source philosophy.

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      • abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Being able to fork and publish your own versions is integral to the open source philosophy

        No, that is an enumerated freedom of the free software movement, not open source

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    • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like the 80s…

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  • abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is source available

    Yes, open source.

    Not Open Source

    You mean free/libre? Open source literally just means you can see the source.

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    • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code,[1] design documents,[2] or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

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      • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And then later on…

        Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use or modification from its original design.

        Unreal Engine is technically open source, because it’s source code is made available to the general public. But it is licensed under a restrictive EULA instead of any of the normal licenses you’d expect for an open source project (MIT, Apache, GPL3, etc).

        This is definitely pedantic, but “open source” is a colloquial term, not a technical one. Most people mean FOSS when they say open source, but the terms aren’t exactly equivalent. The license that governs the code is really the only part that actually matters.

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    • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s just call it OpenSource+ at this point ;)

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