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Chef is licensed under the Apache license. That makes it open source. Chef, however, is not really a community project. There are many open source projects man
by ebiester 12y ago
Chef is licensed under the Apache license. That makes it open source.
Chef, however, is not really a community project. There are many open source projects managed like this.
I don't think this is a pedantic difference: Chef respects the four freedoms, even if they don't incorporate these changes back to the root.
That said, I wouldn't be in a hurry to put through a pull request in most cases myself. I wouldn't feel too invested in this tool. But it's not proprietary.
- cortesoft 12y agoSeriously, if you can fork it, it is open source.
- vorg 12y ago> licensed under the Apache license. That makes it open source > [...] not really a community project. There are many open source projects managed like this Some open source projects start off as community projects but morph into cathedralic ones, hijacked by a few to exclude the many. Even though it still uses an open source license such as Apache, people familiar with it's formerly more open community-oriented processes stop calling it open source.
- nosefrog 12y agoThat point of view is in conflict with the Open Source Initiative's definition of "Open Source"[0] [0] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated http://opensource.org/osd-annotated