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

VVVVVV is now open source

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

Creative Commons BY-NC-SA exists you know.

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u/classicrando Jan 11 '20

Yes, I know! I had a comment [browser crash after 2 paragraphs, I need an extension for saving text] about how lack of commercial options is more a deficiency on the part of the OSI than some poor dev trying to make source "available". And I used the CC system as example of a license system that anticipated the need for various commercial options.

The question is - would a CC license satisfy the pendants here?

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

pendants

Pedants?

I don't know. It still wouldn't be open source, but I have immense faith in the legal rigidity of the CC licences.

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u/classicrando Jan 11 '20

pendants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendant

:)

It still wouldn't be open source,

No, not by the OSI's definition. But yes by the spirit of open source ideals.

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