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DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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As long as we don't call them free, libre, or open source I don't care. We shouldn't make the terminology any more confusing for those.
There’s limited vocab to choose from & source available isn’t an appealing one
It doesn't really roll off the tongue, I get it, but it's the best and most widely used term for software whose source is available to view but not modify and/or redistribute.
Yeah, it definitely is more appealing from a marketing perspective.
I do understand why some projects might wanna use the term, it's to their advantage to be associated with "open source" even if the source code itself has a proprietary license.
The problem is that then it makes it harder / more confusing to check for actually openly licensed code, since then it's not clear what term to use. Already "free software" can be confused with "free as in free beer".