3 ms·
There’s more to the story, afaik. But my main point is that it’s unreasonable to take two existing words and claim it’s impossible to combine them directly. Not
by wruza 3y ago
There’s more to the story, afaik. But my main point is that it’s unreasonable to take two existing words and claim it’s impossible to combine them directly. Not gonna argue or flamebait though, please just tell the correct term for projects with open source but non-free-software license and I’ll be happy to use it from now on.
- kadoban 3y ago> But my main point is that it’s unreasonable to take two existing words and claim it’s impossible to combine them directly. There's terms that if you attempt to use the literal meaning of the component words, you'll confuse people. This is one. It's like a trademark or an idiom, it has extra meaning beyond the literal due to cultural association. > Not gonna argue or flamebait though, please just tell the correct term for projects with open source but non-free-software license and I’ll be happy to use it from now on. I've seen "source available" used and that always seemed fine to me.
- wruza 3y agoLooks fine to me, thanks!