Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
by remram on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @07:16PM
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Again I understand your point but this has nothing to do with the terminology...
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Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
by evanelias on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:43PM
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My point was that accepting OSI’s terminology maintains a status quo that is harmful to innovation and harmful to independent software developers. You’re ceding control over what licenses are acceptable to a closed-membership non-democratic entity that isn’t a professional association. I choose not to do that by rejecting their terminology as a necessary first step.
Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
by rat87 on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:15PM
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You can easily release something with a shared source/source available license that doesnt make it open source. You can also dual license gpl/proprietary use license
Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
by evanelias on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:12AM
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> release something with a shared source/source available license that doesnt make it open source
I already described problems with that approach up-thread. People attack software that uses non-OSI-approved licenses and accuse it of "open washing" even if it avoids the term "open". Or they attack it for not being "open source" and refuse to use it, even if they're not working at a cloud provider or competitor, and are completely unaffected by the extra license terms.
In any case you're repeatedly saying "open source" when you actually mean "OSI-approved", which is the entire thing I'm railing against here.
> You can also dual license gpl/proprietary use license
That solves literally none of the cloud provider problems I've described above.