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   That One Average 成 (thatoneseong@mstdn.games)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 23:15:38 JST That One Average 成

   To be fair:

   If a source (code) is available to the public, with the intent by the original copyright owner, therefore an 'open' source, that does make it... An *open source.*

   Don't think anyone said it has to be Free & Open Source (i.e. with a permissive license) for the source to be open, as you can still view and research the source either way - that's why there's the distinction, is there not?

   Of course, whether it's freely whatever or not is up to the creator/maintainer.

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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 23:15:37 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @ThatOneSeong i am no lawyer but i'm pretty sure it's a very legally dubious topic
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     :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 23:18:25 JST :umu: :umu:

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     @ThatOneSeong ah yes, classic, they took my code and ruined it.
     
     Nothing really can prevent other people from doing that. If you both in very specific countries, some specific copyleft license might've helped you (at least forced third party to keep the source code open), but in other cases... eh... it would be a waste of time.
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     That One Average 成 (thatoneseong@mstdn.games)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 23:18:26 JST That One Average 成

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     So I'm kinda reconsidering the license so that at least we can maintain our brand and prevent both a Fusion or an AE Lightguns incident.

     Like, I want the source to be freely available and have people contribute, but I also don't want people to run off and fucking steal my work wholesale and sell it off as their own thing. Shitty people are why we can't have nice things.

     And I imagine if you too devoted... What, eight months of your life to something, you too might want to protect it a little.

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     That One Average 成 (thatoneseong@mstdn.games)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 23:18:27 JST That One Average 成

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     Look, most of my experience so far personally with FOSS is having some asshat take not even OpenFIRE code, but the EARLIER version of my publicly available gun4all code, both firm and gui, completely ruins the actual repo with their confusing as shit layout because they can't fathom how the Releases page works, undoes like a month's worth of my work, change obj names and renames it under a different brand with the sole intent to make money off my work.

     This means YOU, Gonezo/Fusion Lightguns :|

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     That One Average 成 (thatoneseong@mstdn.games)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 23:18:28 JST That One Average 成

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     Tbh nitpicking about the distinction and saying "uhm, ackshually it's source available" is pretty peak Linux user behavior and this is why we can't have nice things.

     I get this'll be unpopular--and I don't really care, it's just my $0.02.

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     That One Average 成 (thatoneseong@mstdn.games)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 01:59:09 JST That One Average 成

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     @kirby I don't really pretend to know the minutia about this, but it's just a commentary about things I've observed that makes the general populace weary when approaching open source.

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