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Re:How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone'... by ghaff on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:12AM (#16347334)
As I wrote, no one would likely try to legally prevent you from calling any proprietary license open source if you want to. It just won’t actually be open source license in the minds of most if it doesn’t comply anwith the OSI guidelines
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Re:How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone'... by tzs on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:46AM (#16348060)
What about code that complies with the OSI guidelines, but does not use an OSI-approved license? Would you say that is open source?
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Re:How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone'... by ghaff on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:43PM (#16354340)
Not up to me to say what is open source. If something was compliant with OSI guidelines, it’s probably fair to call it open source. Also probably pretty ill-advised to have a one-off license no one else uses.
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