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hamdingerstoday at 3:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

Is rsync going closed source? If not, how is that the same thing?


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kstrausertoday at 4:06 PM

No. The name only means it’s made by the OpenBSD team, nothing more. If they made their own Python port, it’d be called OpenPython, even though the original is FOSS.

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throw0101atoday at 5:45 PM

> Is rsync going closed source? If not, how is that the same thing?

Not closed source, but with rsync 3.0 it changed its license to GPL3, which a lot of folks don't like: BSD/MIT licenses have zero limitations on use and distribution, GPL2 (rsync 1.x, 2.x) forces one to release code, GPL3 (rsync ≥3.x) adds further restrictions.

Some folks want to distribute code with as few restrictions as possible. Other folks have a great good/goal in mind (e.g., 'all software is open source') and so add 'local restrictions' to hopefully achieve greater non-restrictions.

bentleytoday at 4:08 PM

OpenBSD didn’t get its name from NetBSD going closed source.

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