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There is a huge difference between an "open source" code and an "available" code. The whole point of open source is that you can reuse, modify and redistribute
by rakoo 12y ago
There is a huge difference between an "open source" code and an "available" code. The whole point of open source is that you can reuse, modify and redistribute the modification on the code, so that the community's knowledge in the domain can be globally increased. It's all about improving the way we work as a community.
Now, of course, I am free to not want anyone to reuse my code, even if it's publically available. That is just not Open Source.
To be clear on the "calling you out", it's not about calling you out because you made your code available only instead of full OSS, it's about calling you out because you made your code available only and you pretended it's OSS. That is just a lie and calling you out on this is perfectly justifiable.