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Everyone in this thread is already using Linux and just using this thread to circlejerk about issues the average Windows user won’t care about.
No, this is not correct at all! You keep limiting yourself to the terms “open source” and “closed source”.
Any code you create, you own by copyright. Even if it is public on GitHub, you’re still the lone copyright owner and no one is legally allowed to do with it what isn’t allowed by a license.
Projects on GitHub without an open source license are only “functionally open source” to the same extent that pirated games are “functionally free”.
Correct, you are allowed to click the “fork” button and nothing else. You’re still not allowed to download, use, modify, compile or redistribute the code in any way that doesn’t involve the “fork” button.
The industry takes advantage of open source projects that have permissive licenses. This is an important distinction.
If you didn’t release your code with a permissive license (or even with a license at all), you have rights that protect you and your code. The only issue is that copyright infringement can often be hard to prove if you didn’t plan ahead for it.
I’m seeing this misconception in a lot of places.
Just because something is on GitHub, doesn’t mean it’s open source. It doesn’t automatically grant permission to share either.
I’m noticing this misconception in a lot of places.
Just because something is on GitHub, doesn’t mean it’s open source.
Lemmy has its own API. Does this prove their ignorance of the standard too?
Except if it’s minified for production.
Can you please not editorialize the post title when you make the video your post link?
A sample size of 1 isn’t really meaningful.
Also, this post is refuting a claim that isn’t really being made? At least not literally.
Just why do people on Lemmy need to turn every unrelated post into some anti-capitalist rant?
That’s always so easy to say, isn’t it?
Go visit https://fedia.io and then tell them again that they’re on Lemmy.