nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agoHilmar Pétursson: Making CCP tech open source will enable Eve Online to live foreverwww.gamesindustry.bizexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHilmar Pétursson: Making CCP tech open source will enable Eve Online to live foreverwww.gamesindustry.biznanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoFrom reviewing the license, the portions under the ee directory are not open source, they’re source-available with some additional grants of rights given certain conditions. Here’s the definition I use for “open source”, and here’s the one I use for “free software”. Most (all?) free software licenses meet the definition of free software, but not all open source licenses meet the definition of free software, so that’s why I tend to set that free software is a subset of open source software.
minus-squarefmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThat is exactly what I said above.
From reviewing the license, the portions under the ee directory are not open source, they’re source-available with some additional grants of rights given certain conditions.
Here’s the definition I use for “open source”, and here’s the one I use for “free software”. Most (all?) free software licenses meet the definition of free software, but not all open source licenses meet the definition of free software, so that’s why I tend to set that free software is a subset of open source software.
That is exactly what I said above.