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Good&Evil is a classic altrock album by Tally Hall, and now, for something completely different, JSON (media.kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (14 children)

I'm trying to figure out what the hidden message in bold means

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (12 children)

It's a reader assistance, some paid for tool that highlights parts of a word, can't recall what it's called...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This reminded me that I wanted to look into open source alternatives to Bionic Reader...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All extensions are technically open source because they “compile” to JavaScript. Most, including the one I use, don’t bother obfuscating

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Open source is a license. What you're referring to is "source-available." You can't legally fork, redistribute, or contribute to it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

While I agree with you , the Open Software Initiative doesn't :

Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code.

So according to the OSI's definition of open source , a project being public on github , but with out a license or with a license which does not comply with the requirements set out by the OSI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well put me in a dress and call me Sheryl. Never knew that the "accepted definitions" were really that close. Thanks!

I knew that some definitions of OSS were really basic (as in "as long as there is source at some point") but I didn't know that the OSI definition was so close to the idea of "free software".

I found the read about the history and similarities & differences quite interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20180915200609/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html