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The source is available, but it is not open source by the accepted definition used within the open source community: https://opensource.org/osd/ https://opensou
by JohnTHaller 3y ago
The source is available, but it is not open source by the accepted definition used within the open source community: https://opensource.org/osd/ https://opensource.org/osd/
Lots of source available projects are not open source. The source code being available on GitHub means that the source is available, not that it is open. I can post my copyrighted source code only permits me to use it in a project on GitHub. That doesn't make it open.
- palata 3y agoAgreed. I just want to stress that all code is copyrighted. If there is no license granting rights on the code, then you are not allowed to use it. Source-available or not.
- JohnFen 3y agoYes, this is an important point. In the US, anyway, it's all copyrighted. You can't opt out. Also, OSS and FSF licenses wouldn't be effective if the code being licensed wasn't under copyright.
- palata 3y agoActually, reading the Github Terms of Service: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#5-license-grant-to-other-users https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t... > If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking). It doesn't say "modify", but it says "use [...] through the GitHub Service". I wonder if that means that all the code publicly available on GitHub can be used (but not modified) even if there is no license?