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Re:Matomo: Open-source analytics platform by viraptor on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:29AM (#25656745)
> people usually expect open-source to equal free.

Open source has a specific meaning - is the Software released on an open source license. (https://opensource.org/licenses) For example if you pay enough, you get ms windows source as well - that doesn't make it "not completely open source". Your project doesn't seem to be open source at all.

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Re:Matomo: Open-source analytics platform by XCSme on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:56AM (#25657285)
Sorry for the misunderstanding then, I might be using the wrong terminology.

I have seen many other products that are marketed as "open source" because you get the source code after you purchase it, so it is literally "open source", but not "open-source" as in released under an open-source license.

I am personally not marketing userTrak as open-source and I will stop using similar terms if other people do have a strong opinion about what "open-source" actually means.

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Re:Matomo: Open-source analytics platform by mgkimsal on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:11AM (#25656995)
I think the term 'shared source' was coined to describe that particular business model (under certain conditions, the code is shared, and perhaps modifications may be allowed in some scenarios, but no redistribution).
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