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Poll: How do you use/understand the term “open source”?
This gets argued on here not uncommonly, and I'm curious what the community thinks. I tried to capture the main differences I hear talked about.
- themodelplumber 4y ago> Open/free for non-commercial use is enough Do you mean that the source is available in this case, or that it's free of cost and thus "open for non-commercial use"? Can't really tell if the slash is meant to infer equality
- patmcc 4y agoHm, I suppose I meant "source open, available for non-commercial use"
- thesuperbigfrog 4y agoDefinitions have meanings. The Open Source Definition defines "open source": https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd "Free software" also has an official definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html If the definition criteria are not met then the label cannot be used honestly. Neither "source available" nor "open / free for non-commercial use" meet the criteria for "open source" or "free software", so those labels cannot be used honestly. It's your software. License it as you want, but don't mislabel your license choice to try to deceive users to use your software. It is dishonest and disrespects your potential users.
- yuppie_scum 4y agoFree as in speech, and also as in beer
- mindcrime 4y agoPut me down for "I use the OSI definition".