not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 6 days agoIs Windows FOSS now?lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square238linkfedilinkarrow-up11.28Karrow-down162file-text
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minus-squareCosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·6 days agoNot to be pedantic, not holding copyright ≠ FOSS. FOSS explicitly means that the developer has a copyright and is explicitly giving a license for people to use it with FOSS provisions. It would be more accurate to say AI Vibe code is in the public domain.
minus-squareinari@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·6 days agoPublic domain code is a subset of FOSS code, so I don’t think that was inaccurate
minus-squareadb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 days agoIn general terms, it isn’t really. Or at least it is a controversial topic still subject to discussion. https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source As to this specific topic, the fact that all of the code has to be open source is part of the 10 criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition As such, you can’t consider open source the public domain portions of a codebase that also has proprietary portions.
Not to be pedantic, not holding copyright ≠ FOSS.
FOSS explicitly means that the developer has a copyright and is explicitly giving a license for people to use it with FOSS provisions.
It would be more accurate to say AI Vibe code is in the public domain.
Public domain code is a subset of FOSS code, so I don’t think that was inaccurate
In general terms, it isn’t really. Or at least it is a controversial topic still subject to discussion.
https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
As to this specific topic, the fact that all of the code has to be open source is part of the 10 criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
As such, you can’t consider open source the public domain portions of a codebase that also has proprietary portions.