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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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The futo temporary license is not very open at all. Yes you can view the source code, but the license can be revoked at any time. So this is basically source available for auditing, but no community should use this code / project to build any modifications, or forks, or anything contributing to the ecosystem.
It's great that futo is innovating, but I want to make it clear its not open source by the standard meaning.
Maybe a better term for this type of "source viewable" closed project would be "source verifiable"
(Duplicating my comment from another thread on this subject)
Good to know, but how come in the video he talks about letting people modify it as they please? If its only "viewable" then this doesn't hold up? Or am I missing something?
I believe the intent of the license is to protect against someone just reskinng it and selling it for $14.99 as their own thing.
Privately, we can do whatever we want, but don't redistribute it for profit or with malware.
Seems reasonable to me.
I think it's the "temporary" part of the licence where the trouble comes. Yes, you're allowed to do whatever you want privately...until you're not. I mean Louis Rossman is (in my view) a very trustworthy individual, so "trust me bro" legitimately does carry a lot of weight when he's involved on the project, but "we can take away your licence at any time for no reason at all" is not something seen in the open source world.