News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Redis is open source again by lolinder on Friday May 02, 2025 @07:04AM (#43868239)
Not a religion, but a term with a specific meaning, which meaning implies a collection of freedoms granted without discrimination. People are welcome to use licenses that revoke those freedoms, but calling them FOSS is confusing and muddies the waters.

See Llama's license: if it can be Open Source while having restrictions, then having an Acceptable Use Policy is okay, right? So Redis could create a license that bans its use if you host adult content, Star Wars fan fiction, or documents containing the letter R?

If Open Source doesn't mean a license that indiscriminately grants a set of specific freedoms then it's pretty useless as a term—all I know on hearing it is that a project's source code is available. Which reminds me, we already have a term for that: Source Available.

Re:Redis is open source again by zwaps on Saturday May 03, 2025 @10:56PM (#43884115)
Language is defined by society and not by some foundation setting definitions

Open source means exactly what people say it means and what they want to understand by it