Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
Grimm665@lemmy.world 4 months agoIt may not be de jure open source, but if the code is posted publicly on the internet in a way that anyone can download and modify it, it sort of becomes de facto open source (or “source available” if you prefer).
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
Please don’t muddy the water with terms like this. Something is open source if and only if it has an open source license.