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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Well, I set myself up for this, didn’t I… 😅 Actually I was kind of hoping for a more specific question, as I would need to respond with a wall of text - and I would like to avoid that as it is kinda rude to force people to read so much and it makes discussion difficult.

    So maybe 3 options:

    1. Wall of text
    2. You have a more specific question in mind to rephrase
    3. I try to summarize my wall of text, but I might not get the point across









  • I think you got that one wrong.

    Open source is not a license. Open source literally just means that the source is openly available. It does not include the right for you to reuse or change any of the source.

    That’s why most of the time, people are talking about “Free Open Source Software” (FOSS) when they think of openly licensed source code.

    That’s why you can publish your project on e.g. Github (= open source) but if you don’t add a license statement, your work is still protected by an “all rights reserved copyright”. (= not free)

    Anyhow, I would not necessarily deem a project OSS, just because the used language is readable by default. To me, OSS needs at least the developers intention to make it openly available.