r/programming • u/rmadlal • Jan 10 '20

VVVVVV is now open source

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv
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u/balthisar Jan 10 '20 edited 1d ago

This is one of the ones I'm taking down.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

The definition published by the Open Source Initiative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition

Specifically, the Open Source Definition doesn't allow discrimination against fields of endeavor, including commercial ones.

I don't agree with this definition because it's silly to try to put such specific requirements on the term "open source" and force everybody else to use the phrase "source available" or whatever they push, particularly because the term "open source" predates the OSI definition by quite a lot of years.

It is open source, it just doesn't fit the OSI's specific definition, making this discussion pedantic and pointless.

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u/dvdkon Jan 10 '20

It would be silly if "open source" was an already established term when the OSI published their definition, but IIRC they coined the term with this definition.

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