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by nextstep 4490 days ago
That sounds like closed source. I don't see how there could be a gray area here. Either I can compile Atom from source, or it's not open source.
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gojomo 4490 days ago
'source available to compile' ≠ 'open source'

http://opensource.org/osd

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click170 4490 days ago
I completely agree with you.

But at the same time, there's the Android/AOSP situation.

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malka 4490 days ago
You could be able to compile it from sources, but fotking could be forbidden for example
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grrowl 4490 days ago
By GitHub (and Git's) own structure, everything is forkable. It would be very unlike them to prevent forking on one of thier own "special" repos, but in the worst case you could still:

  git clone git@github.com:atom.io/core.git
  git remote add fork git@github.com:grrowl/atom-core.git
  git push -u fork master
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