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

• jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. from Wikipedia

        The same article also talks about the difference between open source and source available:

        Although the OSI definition of “open-source software” is widely accepted, a small number of people and organizations use the term to refer to software where the source is available for viewing, but which may not legally be modified or redistributed. Such software is more often referred to as source-available, or as shared source, a term coined by Microsoft in 2001

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  • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like the 80s…

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• abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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