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by nextaccountic 45 days ago
Is Zed open source or not?

If it's open source it can't have a license agreement to use the software itself

Or is this an agreement to use some cloud service? Supposedly you can opt to not use it

Elsewhere people said that "even if you disable telemetry, Zed can still collect telemetry" but, it being open source means you're still in control

No open source license can force you to run misfeatures
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freehorse 44 days ago
> The Terms of Service and the open source editor are separate. Zed's editor is licensed under GPL v3 (with Apache 2.0 for certain components). Those licenses govern the software itself and haven't changed. The Terms of Service apply when you create a Zed account and use our hosted services. If you use the editor without signing in, the open source licenses are the only thing that applies, and the new terms codify this more clearly than the old.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/50568#issuecomm...

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shimman 44 days ago
so something that 95% of the users of Zed will end up doing? You're arguing this is a good thing because there is a "choice" in how the company gets to fuck you over?
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piaste 43 days ago
> so something that 95% of the users of Zed will end up doing?

Will they? I downloaded it for a test run, and there was no pressure to create a Zed account. I got the impression that it's something you'd do if you wanted to use their cloud AI services, and I can't really see why you'd want a third party involved instead of just bringing your own subscription to your favourite model.

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freehorse 44 days ago
Not sure what you assume I said or argued. Grandparent wrote a question about how can an open source project have ToS (which is a totally legitimate question if they think that the ToS are for the open source project) and I copy pasted the response of somebody from zed team that says that the ToS are about the subscription services only.

The data related part of the ToS for the subscription are the most basic thing you would expect in a standard data processing agreement type of ToS where you have somebody else process your data on your behalf. I don't see any "fuck you over" in them.

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NewsaHackO 44 days ago
After MinIO, I don't care if a VC-backed product is open source or not, frankly. Especially if it has a CLA to contribute (which this one does).
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