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  • Devgard@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure Anytype is finally open sourcing their code after years of it being in alpha though?

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      1 year ago

      Source is available to the public under their own custom licence, but you cannot use it commercially. Server side is closed. So you just know there is no malware inside and you can propose a bugfix, that’s not enough to be open source, yet they misleading call it that.

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          1 year ago

          You seem to be using the term “open source” for what is instead commonly called “source-available”, which has a distinct meaning from open source.

          [Source-available software] includes arrangements where the source can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but without necessarily meeting the criteria to be called open-source.

          [Open-source software] 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.

          edit: fixed duplicated phrasing

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            1 year ago

            No I am using the term for how it was originally used, back in the free software movement days in the 70s and 80s.

            Open source means nothing more than the source beeing open for all to see. What your are describing we called Free Software or later FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) but the open source part is redundant in that acronym.

            Also some started using Libre instead of Free, as Free sometimes are confused with Gratis. That is where the expression Free as in Freedom cones from.

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              1 year ago

              Fair enough. I suppose the terminology has evolved somewhat with time, and I can’t say I have much insight into a time period from before I was born.