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Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer by helsinkiandrew on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:14AM (#48292444)
> Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that?

The miniscript language itself is MIT License:

https://github.com/JoeStrout/miniscript

The Minimicro code doesn't seem to have any license in the repository or code:

https://github.com/JoeStrout/minimicro-sysdisk

Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer by tokai on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:52AM (#48293510)
So Open Source but not Free (Libre).
Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer by debugnik on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:25PM (#48299240)
That's usually called "source available", since most people, including some governmental orgs around the world, already follow OSI's definition for "open source".
Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer by jrmg on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:04AM (#48295448)
For miniscript: the Free Software Foundation considers the MIT license (which they call the ‘Expat License’ to distinguish it from the ‘X11 License’) to be ‘free’ (and GPL compatible), but not ‘copyleft’.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat

For minimicro-sysdisk: I am suspicious that the author just forgot to include a license. Their other repos are mostly MIT or ‘The Unlicensed (also ‘free’ but not ‘copyleft’), and some have licenses added after creation. Suspicion is not something to be legally relied on of course…

Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer by mmmlinux on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:12PM (#48299029)
Am I the only one that hates that programmers now have to also be lawyers?
Re:Mini Micro Fantasy Computer by debugnik on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:19PM (#48299141)
What do you mean now? The peak of debating the merits of varied FOSS licenses must have been 20 years ago.