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All money probably went into NVIDIA GPUs (lemmy.world)
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[-] RmDebArc_5@feddit.org 51 points 1 week ago

Tying it to revenue wouldn't work that well due to inflation. Metas AI has a license that basically says that, but with a user number. Both ideas however would mean that the project isn't open source anymore

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago

Open source doesn't mean free for everyone for every purpose

[-] RmDebArc_5@feddit.org 41 points 1 week ago

Quote from the Open Source Initiative definition of Open Source:

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.

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Not everyone agrees:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

In practice, open source stands for criteria a little looser than those of free software. As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source. Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions.

First, some open source licenses are too restrictive, so they do not qualify as free licenses. For example, Open Watcom is nonfree because its license does not allow making a modified version and using it privately. Fortunately, few programs use such licenses.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

Of course they don't qualify as free licences but they are still open source

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, that was my point.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah we agree

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Ah yes 2026 where we let corporations define our language for their own goals

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, quote from your Bible. It will always be right.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 11 points 1 week ago

True, I don't think there's really a good solution to this (other than getting rid of capitalism)

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