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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 02:43:48 JST Børge

   I don't understand Wikipedia's article Comparison of machine translation applications. Under "license" a lot of them just says SaaS. But Software as a service is not a license, it's a business modell or mode of distribution, right? It could be free with the AGPL license, for example, or proprietary. Both can be SaaS, that doesn't tell you anything about their license?

   What am I missing here?

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_machine_translation_applications

   #wikipedia #licenses #license

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 02:48:35 JST Børge

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     • Lyyn ☮️

     @lyyn Maybe, but shouldn't it then just say "proprietary"?

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     Lyyn ☮️ (lyyn@mastodon.ml)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 02:48:37 JST Lyyn ☮️

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     @forteller Maybe SaaS means that the code is not published at all?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 03:17:24 JST Børge

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     • Kjetil Kilhavn
     • Lyyn ☮️

     @kjetil_kilhavn Sure, but isn't that irrelevant to the license? Shouldn't there rather be a separate column for SaaS/self hosted/offline/whatever? @lyyn

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     Kjetil Kilhavn (kjetil_kilhavn@snabelen.no)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 03:17:25 JST Kjetil Kilhavn

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     • Lyyn ☮️

     @forteller @lyyn Proprietary could also be self-hosted, so I think it's good that they distinguish them. In reality we can't really know what's 'behind' a SaaS, it could be MIT-licensed software for instance.