Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

• Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The source code is private, how can you call that open source?

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bose innovates again by creating open source without source and while keeping everything closed!

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  but open source is always a spectrum

  Is it? I’ve only ever heard “open source” to refer to the source code being released.

  Maybe there’s a different term they meant to say other than “open source”

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And being under a permissive license. Just making the source available is called source-available.

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    • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Permissive license means MIT or Apache2. The GPL or AGPL are also open source but copyleft licenses.

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• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But the source code isn’t available. The source isn’t open. It’s not open-source, by definition.

  The “spectrum” you refer to us about how free you are to publicly make use of the code, not whether or not you even have the code.

  This situation does not fall inside that spectrum.

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• e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  open source is always a spectrum It most definitely is not.

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  • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is a spectrum (MIT vs GPL vs APL for example) but this is outside that spectrum.

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    • racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is not a spectrum of open source. They are all open source, as in you can access the source code without restriction. These licenses just limit what you can do with the source code.

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      • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well, yeah. That’s what the spectrum is.

        Low end: “you can see the source but can’t do anything with it” (questionable whether this counts as open source at all)

        High end “do what you want, it’s literally yours” (public domain).

        One can debate where the low boundary of “open source” is, or what makes one license more or less free than another, but the spectrum is the range of limitations.

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• acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re shitting out of your mouth, son.

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• pogmommy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Even if it were this would be like saying neon green is greyscale

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  One could make that argument, but not in this case. Documenting an API has nothing to do with the open source status of the product.

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