• fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Open source” in the sense this article uses is not really the same as “open source software” which is what this forum is about. Open source journalism does not refer to copyright license terms.

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      1 year ago

      Yea I’m also not sure what a better community for this would be. Open source journalism shares some of the principles (ex. accessible, open collaboration, verifiable), but yes it’s not open source software. They often use closed source tools in the investigations.

      I was going off of this, since it’s definitely against the rules of some other communities that are specific to software:

      Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology