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by syockit 3710 days ago
It is open source. You can see the source. The license is no-license, so you can (only) fork it. That way, people can clone from your username instead of the original author, although that doesn't make any difference as they're all hosted on GitHub.
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lucideer 3710 days ago
You seem to be getting downvotes because you don't understand what the term "open source" means, but nobody has offered to explain so:

Open source does not just mean you can see the source. From Wikipedia[0]:

"Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose."

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

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nothrabannosir 3710 days ago
Not OP, but---I've been in software and OSS for a long time now, and I never knew this. I thought the term for that was Free Software.

In fact, looking closely at that definition, isn't practically nothing open source?

"Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose."

I.e. public domain? Any other license lives precisely to limit those rights of distribution, no?

Anyway, just pedantry. I see your point. Learn something new every day.

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lucideer 3710 days ago
I think you've highlighted an inaccuracy, or at least a lack of clarity, in the Wikipedia article. I guess a Wikipedian could argue it should be interpreted as "for any purpose depending on the chosen licence", but that's definitely not clear.

Re: Open source vs Free software, this is a matter for debate (the tendency being too associate Free software with the more copyleft/viral/gnu-ish side of things), but I would definitely say that both involve explicit licencing, as opposed to potentially implicit " all rights reserved " style regional copyright.

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Chris2048 3708 days ago
I would usually use the term "FLOSS", for Free-Liberte, OSS"

The L part clarified the type of freedom, as the FL clarifies that it's not just OSS.

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SyneRyder 3710 days ago
In some countries, code is copyrighted by default unless the author specifies a different license or explicitly puts it into the public domain. Without a license (or asking the author for permission), I have to assume this code is copyright & All Rights Reserved, and that I can't do anything with it except read it.

It's still interesting and cool to see! Just not what I thought it was when I clicked on the link.

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BugsBunnySan 3710 days ago
Side note: "some countries" actually encompasses almost all the countries in the world, since source code falls under the Berne Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention, which automatically grants the author copyright on anything they make, unless they explicitly give it up...
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