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0 pointsyakubin5y ago0 comments

The article doesn't mention GPL. It's unlikely that this code is GPL-licensed. Moreover, yeah, probably the customer can modify the code, but can they resell it or share it with someone else for free? If not, it's not open source.

From "The Open Source Definition"[1]:

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

[1]: <https://opensource.org/osd>

UPDATE: it seems it is licensed under AGPLv3. So it is open source. Interesting.

0 pointsyakubin5y ago0 comments

From "The Open Source Definition"[1]:

[1]: <https://opensource.org/osd>

UPDATE: it seems it is licensed under AGPLv3. So it is open source. Interesting.

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nvr2195y ago· 2 in thread

It says open source in the title.

Turns out it is open source.

"Interesting"

Like... why did you expect it to not be open source

prepend5y ago

“I’m contradicting the author without validating my claim. And it’s super easy to validate my claim, but I just didn’t. When confronted, I complain that it takes greater than 10 seconds to verify my claim.”

This is curious behavior. There’s lots of incorrect and misleading articles. But I try to bring up questions only when exhausting reasonable investigations.

yakubinOP5y ago

1. There is no link in the article to the zip file.

2. Searching for open3A in duckduckgo brings me to a page that spits out PHP errors and doesn't give me anything.

3. The only way that I now know where the zip file is, is because another commenter linked to it.

4. We've seen companies disguise something as open-source, when it wasn't.

5. Open source is commonly hard-to-sell.

So no, it wasn't 10 seconds to verify and the author didn't make it particularly easy to do so. My doubts are completely natural, given past news in "open-source". Are you commenting in bad faith?

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monsieurbanana5y ago· 1 in thread

I'm sure I've spend less time downloading the zip, opening it, and seeing a "agpl.txt" file than you did writting that comment.

yakubinOP5y ago

I don't see a link to it in the article. I've only noticed where it is after another commenter linked to it.

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