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Let’s not be pedantic about “Open Source” (arp242.net)
2 points by zdw on July 20, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The better way to describe the difference is "permissioned" versus "permissionless" licenses.

I believe many people associate "true" OSS with the permissionless variety. The permissioned variety is less open source by popular sentiments.




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