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There are two FUSE implementations for macOS and neither is open source, unfortunately. One reason: it’s a critical component of several profitable, commercial
by rgovostes 3y ago
There are two FUSE implementations for macOS and neither is open source, unfortunately. One reason: it’s a critical component of several profitable, commercial products, but the authors of then-open source FUSE implementations found that none of those companies were willing to financially support their work.
Those authors also haven’t seemed interested in crowdfunding when it has been proposed.
- xaerise 3y agoThey actually tried with crowdfunding, but it didn't go well. Mostly because German laws and other things.
- krackers 3y agoSee https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/16/fuse_macos_closed_source/ https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/16/fuse_macos_closed_sou... for more info. I wonder why a dual-licensing approach was not pursued though, e.g. some viral license (AGPL?) for the open-source part. This could have the same benefit of getting companies to negotiate an explicit (paid) license agreement while still making source available.