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clickety_clackyesterday at 4:04 PM1 replyview on HN

The license describes what users are allowed to do with the source code, it doesn’t (and shouldn’t) define what a creator has to do to make the source code open.


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freedombenyesterday at 6:10 PM

Then it sounds like you're philosophically opposed to copyleft license like GPL. That's ok, we can agree to (in my case vehemently) disagree, but your philosophy is inconsistent with the commonly accepted definition of "open source" such as OSI's OSD[1][2]

[1]: https://opensource.org/licenses [2]: https://opensource.org/osd

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