Is it actually open source now?
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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nope. But it keeps getting spammed on lemmy...
Source avaliable. they want to change the license tho
According to the license, it is better than source available. You can modify and redistribute, you just can't sell it. Other than that caveat, as far as I can tell, your rights are basically the same as with other open source licenses. (Feel free to correct me if I've missed something.)
Section 4 is what gets me. Your rights are temporary and revokable meaning the the rest of the license doesn't matter in the long term
## Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation
1. We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.
~~I also don't believe it's even fully source availiable. There are no build instructions, and you can't clone all the submodules without signing in to their closed application gitlab instance. If anyone has sucessfully built it from source, please lmk.~~
Nevermind they did add build instructions since I last checked. Still lmk if anyone's tested them.
not really as the FUTO temporary license restricts the use of the source code
this is not open source. from their license:
Subject to the terms of this license, we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access and use the code solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution.
note how this explicitly leaves out modification.
You may provide the code to anyone else and publish excerpts of it for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution, provided that when you do so you make any recipient of the code aware of the terms of this license, they must agree to be bound by the terms of this license and you must attribute the code to the provider
once again, they exclude modification of the code.
no forks can be made because they aren't allowed to modify the app in anyway.
Additionally, the termination clauses say that they can just terminate your rights to use the code if they feel like it, no other reason needed. This is a direct attack against open source.