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   Kyle Davis (linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 16:31:50 JST Kyle Davis

   First, I love this project and want to build it.

   However, I'm going to go 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' on calling it open source and how the maker projects and #3Dprinting may be unintentionally damaging the general understanding of #OpenSource.

   a) the model is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. That is unambiguously not open source: NC means it restricts fields of endeavour.

   b) It 'remixes' code without a license from pastebin.

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   https://youtu.be/2xAk-wegS9o

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     Kyle Davis (linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 16:31:50 JST Kyle Davis

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     It also normalizes stretching the meaning of open source. So, when I try to explain that various source available licenses are not open source, I'm fighting against people with major audiences saying otherwise.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 16:31:50 JST 翠星石

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     @linux_mclinuxface This is to be expected, considering that most "open source" supporters have never seen the; https://opensource.org/osd
     
     Additionally, the OSI has not approved any creative commons license, as those licenses are not suitable for software.
     
     Most people look at "open source" and it assume it means that the source code is publicly available (there is no good way to explain why it's more than that, as describing the 10 requirements takes far too long).
     
     Of course, people have gone and stretched the term so far it snaps and use it to refer to "participatory" situations, which are in fact extremely proprietary and will continue to do so, as people almost never call them out.
     
     https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
     
     
     People may assume free software means software you can get gratis, but once you tell them that free means freedom and request they think before believing what advertisers tell them, they won't make the same mistake again: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms