• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    but open source is always a spectrum

    Is it? I’ve only ever heard “open source” to refer to the source code being released.

    Maybe there’s a different term they meant to say other than “open source”

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      And being under a permissive license. Just making the source available is called source-available.

      • exu@feditown.com
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        Permissive license means MIT or Apache2. The GPL or AGPL are also open source but copyleft licenses.