▲ 154 ▼ Edward Snowden Echoes Richard Stallman's Warnings On Proprietary Software After User Says 'Adobe Can Not Be Trusted' (www.benzinga.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 34 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because its open source doesn't mean its FOSS permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) i know, because off this I named what is FOSS and what is OSS. But even FOSS, when it include APIs, also FOSS, from Big Brothers, it isn't really FOSS, it's only because the traditional definition, same for "Open" Source as such. This is because I said that the traditional definition need a revision. https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/ permalink fedilink source parent [–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Free and Open Source Software? I think they qualify permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) None of those projects are GPL permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago People are running Microsoft VsCode deploying via Microsoft github to Vercel or Render, and consider themselves an open source advocate permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) i know, because off this I named what is FOSS and what is OSS. But even FOSS, when it include APIs, also FOSS, from Big Brothers, it isn't really FOSS, it's only because the traditional definition, same for "Open" Source as such. This is because I said that the traditional definition need a revision. https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) Free and Open Source Software? I think they qualify permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) None of those projects are GPL permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago People are running Microsoft VsCode deploying via Microsoft github to Vercel or Render, and consider themselves an open source advocate permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) None of those projects are GPL permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago People are running Microsoft VsCode deploying via Microsoft github to Vercel or Render, and consider themselves an open source advocate permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago People are running Microsoft VsCode deploying via Microsoft github to Vercel or Render, and consider themselves an open source advocate permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it) permalink fedilink source parent