Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoopen source is always a spectrum It most definitely is not.
Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoopen source is always a spectrum It most definitely is not.
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It is a spectrum (MIT vs GPL vs APL for example) but this is outside that spectrum.
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.
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.