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by RGBCube 232 days ago
Even if they made it Source Available it wouldn't hurt them much, because Minecraft is very easy to pirate and the reason anyone pays for anything at all is because you need an account in Mojang's authentication servers (which people do not want to move off of for various reasons).

Hell, they could even make it Open Source with a clause preventing other companies from using to code to make a profit. It's too big to fail.
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TheDong 232 days ago
> Hell, they could even make it Open Source with a clause preventing other companies from using to code to make a profit

Such a clause would immediately make it Source Available not Open Source.

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netdur 231 days ago
by that logic GPL wouldn’t be open source either since it also adds restrictions unlike the fuck license

nowadays github is filled with so-called open source projects under GPL3 but the maintainers want you to pay for a dual license

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TheDong 231 days ago
Let's look at the OSI definition since that's what people mean by Open Source (particularly when capitalized):

https://opensource.org/osd

> The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

> No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

You cannot restrict selling derivatives of the software (a field of endeaver), and the derived work must be able to be shared under a similar license.

GPL does not add any restrictions counter to that. It allows you to redistribute and sell copies if you want, you just have to respect your user's freedom by also giving them the modified source code.

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