savoy@lemmygrad.ml to GNU+Linux Humor@lemmy.ml · 3 years agoOpen source != freelemmygrad.mlimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squareTxopi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 years agoI don’t want to ruin your joke but MIT is both, free and open at the same time. MIT licensed software is free/libre software according to GNU and is “open source” according to OSI.
minus-squareCarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoExactly. To the evil company, it’s free. What’s not free is the rebranded software.
minus-squareArthur Besse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 years agoUnder the MIT license, a derivative work is allowed to be neither free nor libre.
minus-squarefederico3@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 years ago“Free” as in “unpaid labor” or “free to proprietize my work”
I don’t want to ruin your joke but MIT is both, free and open at the same time.
MIT licensed software is free/libre software according to GNU and is “open source” according to OSI.
Exactly. To the evil company, it’s free. What’s not free is the rebranded software.
Free or libre?
Under the MIT license, a derivative work is allowed to be neither free nor libre.
“Free” as in “unpaid labor” or “free to proprietize my work”