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Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by telenardo on Friday January 24, 2025 @05:58PM (#42817754)
Yes, that's right. This was definitely not intentional and we are very open to changing it to something more appropriate!
Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by MacsHeadroom on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:15PM (#42818527)
BSD or MIT license would be nice.
Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:47PM (#42818670)
AGPL would be better
Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by gus_massa on Saturday January 25, 2025 @09:22AM (#42821805)
Amazon and other cloud providers avoid AGPL, so I think it's closer to the intentions of the OP.
Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by freeone3000 on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:14PM (#42817862)
I think the license choice is great. It allows noncommercial use, modification, and redistribution. It’s not “open source” according to the champions of the term (since it violates the use-for-any-purpose requirement) but I’m a huge fan of this license and license several of my projects CC-NC-BY where AGPL would be too heavy-handed.
Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by josephernest on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:22PM (#42817915)
I think your choice is very appropriate.

And it is open source.

Probably not OSI-open source or FSF-open source but it is open source, period.

Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by emacsen on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:50PM (#42818080)
"It's not recognized as Open Source by the Open Source body, and doesn't meet the criteria of Free/Open Source Software, but is Open Source" is a bit like saying "I used GMO and petroleum based pesticides, but my produce is all organic."
Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by josephernest on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:10AM (#42828608)
But here the source is open!

Why should we restrict the meaning of Opel Source, a societal mouvement since decades, to a list of criteria that FSF or OSI decided?

Open source is not a trade mark by FSF or OSI.

OP did not say it is free/libre software, but just open source, which it is.

We don't need "source available", just open source is correct.

PS: can you define the open source body in your previous comment?

Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by emacsen on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:19PM (#42832364)
Why should words like "organic" in relation to food mean without pesticides? I mean all carbon and water based life forms are organic, right?

I can define Open Source easily, using the OSI definition.

There is not a trademark for Open Source because they failed to secure the trademark, but we have decades of use for the term meaning something specific.