Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f...
by gpm on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:20AM
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I tend to believe that the product owner at Defold was genuinely unaware that there is this movement to redefine "open source" to mean something other than its plain meaning. After all, all "OSI open source" software is also "Plain Meaning open source", and it's the sort of pedantry that many people really don't give a fuck about.
It certainly didn't help them to use the term open source here, instead of everyone discussing the game engine they're releasing completely for free to the public with no strings attached and source code attached they're discussing the meaning of the term open source and accusing them of fraud.
Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f...
by vertex-four on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:25AM
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It is not released to the public with no strings attached, that's the entire point here. There's very specific strings attached around some use of this work.
Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f...
by gpm on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:27AM
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I was careful with my phrasing.
The engine was released for free with no strings attached - you're free to implement whatever you like using the engine.
The source code was released, with very minor strings attached.
Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f...
by vertex-four on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:30AM
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Even ignoring the source then: you can't disassemble the compiled engine, modify it and use your modification commercially, afaict. That's a string.
> No corporate shill who has an understanding of the situation would be dumb enough to use the term and get into that fight.
These are not people who made an innocent mistake. The product owner of Defold is commenting in this very thread (without any disclaimers, I might add). They want people to believe that it is really OSI “open source”, when in fact it isn’t.