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  1. What is open-source? With the rise of source-available licenses, it has become increasingly important to be accurate in our wording. Betanews has a great article about it:
    betanews.com/2023/12/12/whats-

  2. Is Font Awesome #opensource or are they #openwashing?

    The free version is licensed under Creative Commons
    Attribution 4.0 International, which is not an OSI-approved license:
    opensource.org/licenses/

    It's not software, so it's fine to use that license. But v4 was open source under SIL OFL 1.1.

    I'm not a legal expert, but this seems to be source-available with a generous free license. Hence, open-washing? 🤔

    Thoughts?

    #foss #licensing #osi #opensourcelicensing

  3. Is Font Awesome #opensource or are they #openwashing?

    The free version is licensed under Creative Commons
    Attribution 4.0 International, which is not an OSI-approved license:
    opensource.org/licenses/

    It's not software, so it's fine to use that license. But v4 was open source under SIL OFL 1.1.

    I'm not a legal expert, but this seems to be source-available with a generous free license. Hence, open-washing? 🤔

    Thoughts?

    #foss #licensing #osi #opensourcelicensing