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Exactly. Open doesn't mean "we will pay all of the bills so that you can enjoy these resources for free". Open means "we will not take any legal action against
by Taek 3y ago
Exactly. Open doesn't mean "we will pay all of the bills so that you can enjoy these resources for free".
Open means "we will not take any legal action against sharing and/or modifying these files".
Open projects can have all the ratelimits and paid APIs that they want, as long as they are okay with people setting up mirrors and re-hosting content for free.
- danShumway 3y agoAnd notably there are some "open" services like Doesthedogdie that should not be considered Open even though as far as I know they don't have rate limits on their APIs or force users to log in. They still claim ownership of all of the content, you don't have permission to take that info and mirror it to another site. Goodreads also springs to mind (although I guess Amazon has started monetizing that now, so it might not be as great of an example). The immediate access matters less to me than Amazon looking at all those user reviews and recommendations and saying, "we own them."