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Can't find the link to the source anywhere on the sourceforge page, I did find a github repo with claimed sources and a link to the sourceforge page, but that h

• da_chicken 4y ago
  There's some source archives on the download page. https://www.7-zip.org/download.html https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
• redox99 4y ago
  It might be "open source" technically but really it's source available. They just dump some source code every release. No commit history. No documentation. And although I haven't tried it, almost certainly you can't build it without reverse engineering the code and finding that it lacks either some build files, dependencies or whatever.
  • account42 4y ago
    Open source != bazaar development model. You may prefer the development to be in the open and that is fair (I do too) but don't mislabel things because of that.
    • redox99 4y ago
      I already clarified that technically it's probably open source "Probably" because some projects like this don't actually include all parts of the source. FreeFileSync for example which claimed to be opensource, and they distributed some source, did in fact lack many parts, not just build files but actual source files (I think it can be built nowadays however). The big problem here isn't that you don't have a commit history. It's that these programs are often unbuildable. And often it seems that they are purposely distributed this way to deter other people from building or forking your software. Again however, I haven't actually checked the source files provided by 7zip in particular, but this problem I describe is a very common pattern in software whose source is distributed this way.