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[-] wargreymon2023@sopuli.xyz 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The license on server forbids you to do anything about it, but it is "hey look, open source!". i.e. You can see, develop and modify the code on your own but under the license you can't do anything about it. That's really saying you are allowed to develop something you legally cannot own unless you paid the subscription, on top of that they can slap the "open source" label on it.

[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Edit: alright, I stand corrected.

FOSS and OSS mean the same thing. Apparently this stems from MBAs failing to understand the difference between free speech and free beer, and automatically assuming the later.

So this is "source available", and the label "open source" is bogus.

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 14 points 7 months ago

@7heo taking the term "open source" literally as just open for reading (not open for modification, distribution etc..) that's only what big monopolistic corporations want you to believe. They've been attempting to redefine the term for many years. Before they started this campaign it was pretty clear to everyone that open source means one of the OSI licenses. Think about it, if it was only about readability, then all javascript would be technically open source. The mixup is artificial.

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