• krolden
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    6 months ago

    Just because its open source doesn’t mean its FOSS

    • Zerush
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      i know, because off this I named what is FOSS and what is OSS. But even FOSS, when it include APIs, also FOSS, from Big Brothers, it isn’t really FOSS, it’s only because the traditional definition, same for “Open” Source as such. This is because I said that the traditional definition need a revision.

      https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/

        • Midnight1938@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 months ago

          People are running Microsoft VsCode deploying via Microsoft github to Vercel or Render, and consider themselves an open source advocate

        • Zerush
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it)