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I really appreciated the section about OSI licenses as someone who this year stopped using them entirely for new work. (Snippets from the article below) > I w
by bsnnkv 2y ago
I really appreciated the section about OSI licenses as someone who this year stopped using them entirely for new work.
(Snippets from the article below)
> I wrote open source software for almost my whole life. Yet, as I’m an atheist and still I’m happy when I see other people believing in God, if this helps them to survive life’s hardships, I also don’t believe that open source is the only way to write software.
> Moreover, I don’t believe that openness and licensing are only what the OSI tells us they are. I see licensing as a spectrum of things you can and can’t do.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoSee, I read that and immediately was reminded that I don't exactly love the OSI being the one true definer of Open Source... but somehow the only people who ever argue that immediately try to use it as an excuse to pretend their stuff is open for marketing reasons while avoiding actually giving users the same rights. Besides, it's not that "openness and licensing are only what the OSI tells us they are"; it's that the OSI and FSF and DFSG all agree.