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You give the code in a .js file that you include in a browser plugin but, you don't state clearly whether this is or is not an open source project. The .js file
by slackstation 11y ago
You give the code in a .js file that you include in a browser plugin but, you don't state clearly whether this is or is not an open source project. The .js file has no license in it either.
File: https://www.inboxsdk.com/build/inboxsdk.js https://www.inboxsdk.com/build/inboxsdk.js
Then I see the github page: https://github.com/InboxSDK/ https://github.com/InboxSDK/
There is no InboxSDK project but, just two example chrome plugins using the inboxSDK.
All the trappings and mechanics of open source without the actual source and an actual open source license. Are you guys just testing this to see if you can productize it? Or are you going to go all the way and open source this?
- obvio 11y agosome more info on this here https://www.inboxsdk.com/terms https://www.inboxsdk.com/terms
- alooPotato 11y agoThanks for this. We're adding licenses to our examples that we have on GitHub and we're also adding a pointer from our inboxsdk.js file to our terms of service. Over a longer time horizon, we plan on open sourcing the entire implementation of the InboxSDK but just not yet.
- kuschku 11y agoYou do realize that any client-side code – especially with the universal right to decompile and adapt code in the EU – is essentially open source anyway?
- oneweekwonder 11y agoI understand why this view point can be wrong. But instead of just downvoting him. Why not give a link or two, to correct him?
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI guess you don't care to provide a link or two either? (I don't know what you're talking about.)
- olalonde 11y agoI can't comment on EU law but the ability to redistribute the (modified) code is also a defining characteristic of open source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
- kuschku 11y agoYes, but reverse engineered code is NOT subject to copyright of the original author by law (there is an EuGH decision about this). IANAL. Therefore it is, essentially, open source.