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> licensed under the Apache license. That makes it open source > [...] not really a community project. There are many open source projects managed like this S
by 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