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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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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    abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Under that strict definition, software under the GNU GPL would not be “open source” because the license stays with the code, and is not truly “for any purpose,” which is the same deal with the Epic license: you may use, study, change, and distribute the Unreal source code, but it stays under Epic’s license.
    
    If you are talking about the FREEDOM to fork and publish and share and whatever, then you mean Free software.
    
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AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Like the 80s…

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