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I mean... that's fine if that's what their business requires. It just isn't open source. It's "source available" or "shared source" or something. And there's no
by mindcrime 6y ago
I mean... that's fine if that's what their business requires. It just isn't open source. It's "source available" or "shared source" or something. And there's nothing wrong with that, as long as everybody is up-front about what it is.
Edit: to qualify what I just said... I obviously only mean that IF their license doesn't also allow distribution of patch files. You can be OSI compliant and not allow distribution of the modified source as a "whole" so long as you allow distribution of the patches needed to get to the modified source. I didn't notice at a brief glance where the "new" (or old) Timescale license falls on this point.
- est31 6y agoYeah it's perfectly fine that they make a product under this license, as going full closed source would be perfectly fine as well. But it's not open source.