• Five@slrpnk.netOP
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    5 months ago

    Is this what you’re talking about? Is AGPL controversial now?

    When did Louis “Right to Repair” Rossmann become the bad guy?

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      5 months ago

      He called a liscence that doesnt allow redistribution that changes the donation link or copying the branding “open source”, which it is it’s just a bit more restrictive

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        5 months ago

        FUTO’s The Open Source Definition

        Open source just means access to the source code. […]

        What is wrong with this company? How do you have the thought and then follow all the way through with it, that you need an own definition of a commonly used word? That’s just being obtuse and annoying.

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        5 months ago

        danb.me’s criticisms and tone are valid, but it looks FUTO has taken down their ill-advised license page and are using an unmodified AGPL.

        I’m struggling to assign malice here; Louis is a hardware guy, and not every software person is really up on what distinguishes free software from freeware. FUTO seems like a pretty small shop; I’d give them a pass on this one.