cypherpunks, (edited )
@cypherpunks@lemmy.ml avatar

there is no single universally agreed upon definition

There is an overwhelmingly agreed-upon definition. Look at who agrees with it: opensource.org/authority/

And who doesn’t agree? Historically, a few of the giant software companies who were threatened by the free software movement thought that “open source” was a way for them to talk the talk without walking the walk. However, years ago, even they all eventually agreed about OSI’s definition and today they use terms like source-available software for their products that don’t meet it.

Today it is only misinformed people like yourself, and grifters trying to profit off of the positive perception of the term. I’m assuming Louis Rossman is in the former category too; we’ll see in the near future if he acknowledges that the FUTO license is not open source and/or relicenses the project under an open source license.

there are over 80 variations of open source licenses all with different term and conditions. Some are more permissive, some less so. Yet they can all be considered a variation of open source, though I’m anticipating you wouldn’t agree?

There are many open source licenses, and many non-open-source licenses. there is a list of licenses which OSI has analyzed and found to meet their definition; licenses which aren’t on that list can be open source too… but to see if they are, you would need to read the license and the definition.

Have you read The Open Source Definition? I’m assuming not.

I can’t understand why you are acting like the definition police here, it seems very pedantic tbh.

It’s because (1) FUTO are deceiving their customers by claiming that their product is something which it isn’t, and (2) they’re harming the free and open source software movements by telling people that terms mean things contrary to what they actually mean.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • 200 @ entry_comment_voters
    HTTP status 200 OK
    Route name entry_comment_voters
    Has session yes
    Stateless Check no
    Time 1725 ms
    Total time 1725 ms
    Initialization time 337 ms
    Memory 12.0 MiB
    Peak memory usage 12.0 MiB
    PHP memory limit 128 MiB
    Logger 87
    Errors 0
    Warnings 0
    Deprecations 87
    Cache 47 in 889.12 ms
    Cache Calls 47
    Total time 889.12 ms
    Cache hits 40 / 55 (72.73%)
    Cache writes 9
    3
    Default locale en
    Missing messages 3
    Fallback messages 0
    Defined messages 119
    Security n/a
    Authenticated No
    Firewall name main
    Twig 1122 ms
    Render Time 1122 ms
    Template Calls 80
    Block Calls 16
    Macro Calls 6
    53 in 976 ms
    settings_row_switch 15
    user_avatar 13
    user_settings_row_switch 4
    date 3
    user_inline 2
    settings_row_enum 2
    entry_comment 1
    date_edited 1
    vote 1
    boost 1
    user_actions 1
    magazine_box 1
    magazine_sub 1
    related_magazines 1
    active_users 1
    related_categories 1
    related_posts 1
    related_entries 1
    support_us_block 1
    featured_magazines 1
    16 in 710.82 ms
    Database Queries 16
    Different statements 13
    Query time 710.82 ms
    Invalid entities 0
    Cache hits 35
    Cache misses 3
    Cache puts 3
    6.4.0
    Profiler token c32053
    Environment dev
    Debug enabled
    PHP version 8.2.26   View phpinfo()
    PHP Extensions Xdebug ✗ APCu ✓ OPcache ✓
    PHP SAPI apache2handler