#source-available — Public Fediverse posts

The argument against Source Available licenses in a single sentence;

"We need to stop torture, but we can't do it through software licenses."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html

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#SoftwareFreedom #SourceAvailable #CopyFarLeft

The argument against Source Available licenses in a single sentence;

"We need to stop torture, but we can't do it through software licenses."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html

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#SoftwareFreedom #SourceAvailable #CopyFarLeft

"After I joined the company, and a year of evaluating alternatives, in March 2024, we decided to move Redis to the SSPL license. This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork ..."

#RowanTrollope, 2025

https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

Huh. No wonder warning them that a relicense to SPPL would only result in a fork had no impact. It never occurred to me that getting corporate re-users to fork was the *goal*! But that kind of makes sense.

#Redis #SSPL #SourceAvailable #AGPL

"After I joined the company, and a year of evaluating alternatives, in March 2024, we decided to move Redis to the SSPL license. This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork ..."

#RowanTrollope, 2025

https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

Huh. No wonder warning them that a relicense to SPPL would only result in a fork had no impact. It never occurred to me that getting corporate re-users to fork was the *goal*! But that kind of makes sense.

#Redis #SSPL #SourceAvailable #AGPL

Cal.com Goes Closed Source: What It Means for Self Hosting, Trust, and Open Software in 2026

https://beitmenotyou.online/cal-com-goes-closed-source-what-it-means-for-self-hosting-trust-and-open-oftware-in-2026/

Wow Keychron sharing all the industrial design files for 83 of their products is very cool. They're releasing it as a source-available non-commercial license but explicitly encourages non-commercial community modding and accessory development. This is also very encouraging from a right to repair perspective!

#MechanicalKeyboard #RightToRepair #SourceAvailable

Wow Keychron sharing all the industrial design files for 83 of their products is very cool. They're releasing it as a source-available non-commercial license but explicitly encourages non-commercial community modding and accessory development. This is also very encouraging from a right to repair perspective!

#MechanicalKeyboard #RightToRepair #SourceAvailable

What are your thoughts on noncommercial source-available licenses for projects by small companies / individuals?

#OpenSource #sourceavailable #foss

What are your thoughts on noncommercial source-available licenses for projects by small companies / individuals?

#OpenSource #sourceavailable #foss

'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay)

https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay

#HackerNews #SourceAvailable #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #TechInsights #HackerNews

'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay)

https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay

#HackerNews #SourceAvailable #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #TechInsights #HackerNews

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115692071460280703

Wrote about this recently as well. We don't want Source Available to become the standard. Its not gonna help - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2025/oss-and-sas/

#sourcewashing #OSS #OpenSource #SourceAvailable #SAS

https://chinstrap.community/yet-another-license-change/

#baitandswitch #COSS #OpenSource #oss #rugpull #SourceAvailable

Wrote about #opensource and it's evil twin - #sourceavailable softwares:
https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2025/oss-and-sas/

#oss

@SuperDicq @Vivaldi
Really?
https://vivaldi.com/source/

#VivaldiBrowser #VivaldiTechnologies #Vivaldi #browser #browsers #mobileApp #AndroidApp #dataCollection #identification #browser_identification #privacy #dataPrivacy #privacyMatters #FOSS #openSource #openSourceProject #openSourceProjects #checkYourself #closedSource #sourceAvailable #sourceCode

@SuperDicq @Vivaldi
Really?
https://vivaldi.com/source/

#VivaldiBrowser #VivaldiTechnologies #Vivaldi #browser #browsers #mobileApp #AndroidApp #dataCollection #identification #browser_identification #privacy #dataPrivacy #privacyMatters #FOSS #openSource #openSourceProject #openSourceProjects #checkYourself #closedSource #sourceAvailable #sourceCode

@artfulrobot @Vivaldi
#Propietary, but #sourceAvailable

#VivaldiBrowser #VivaldiTechnologies #Vivaldi

https://chinstrap.community/commercial-open-source-is-not-only-about-license-changes/

#COSS #licensechanges #OpenSource #oss #SourceAvailable #Startups

A couple of years back, a bunch of projects started switching to proprietary Source Available licenses like #SSPL. I predicted that they would soon regret it, as they started to be replaced with forks of their own software. Feeling pretty smug reading this ...

"Redis bets big on an open source return

The company is hopeful that changing its license will allow it to better compete with the Valkey fork."

#MattAsay, May 2025

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3975620/redis-bets-big-on-an-open-source-return.html

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#SourceAvailable #Redis #Valkey

A couple of years back, a bunch of projects started switching to proprietary Source Available licenses like #SSPL. I predicted that they would soon regret it, as they started to be replaced with forks of their own software. Feeling pretty smug reading this ...

"Redis bets big on an open source return

The company is hopeful that changing its license will allow it to better compete with the Valkey fork."

#MattAsay, May 2025

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3975620/redis-bets-big-on-an-open-source-return.html

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#SourceAvailable #Redis #Valkey

The project containing all four implementations is available as well!

GB Studio Hello World on GitHub

#SourceAvailable

The project containing all four implementations is available as well!

GB Studio Hello World on GitHub

#SourceAvailable

@ivan , relevant:

Overview of such source-available licenses:
http://sourceavailable.org/

not-#FOSS #SourceAvailable

@ivan , relevant:

Overview of such source-available licenses:
http://sourceavailable.org/

not-#FOSS #SourceAvailable

Memory a small card-matching game I made in GB Studio 4 to learn some new features.

It is very, very simple but people seem to be enjoying it! You can read about the algorithm or look over the code!

📐 Traditional rules.
🎼 Catchy tunes by Goodnight Girl.
🎨 Everything else by me.

#GBStudio #CardGames #GameBoy #SourceAvailable #Pexeso #GameDev #HomeBrew #RetroDev

Memory a small card-matching game I made in GB Studio 4 to learn some new features.

It is very, very simple but people seem to be enjoying it! You can read about the algorithm or look over the code!

📐 Traditional rules.
🎼 Catchy tunes by Goodnight Girl.
🎨 Everything else by me.

#GBStudio #CardGames #GameBoy #SourceAvailable #Pexeso #GameDev #HomeBrew #RetroDev

👀 Why We’re Moving to a Source Available License - ScyllaDB

"As the Enterprise version branched out of the OSS branch, it was helpful to keep a unified base for reuse and efficiency. However, it reduced our paid version differentiation since all features were open by default (unless flagged)."

https://www.scylladb.com/2024/12/18/why-were-moving-to-a-source-available-license/

#scylladb #opensource #sourceavailable

👀 Why We’re Moving to a Source Available License - ScyllaDB

"As the Enterprise version branched out of the OSS branch, it was helpful to keep a unified base for reuse and efficiency. However, it reduced our paid version differentiation since all features were open by default (unless flagged)."

https://www.scylladb.com/2024/12/18/why-were-moving-to-a-source-available-license/

#scylladb #opensource #sourceavailable

@kfdm @teleclimber @aljazmerzen @dahukanna @scottjenson yeah Cloudron is Docker based too, and the individual Cloudron app packages they create are all themselves #opensource https://git.cloudron.io/apps it's just the core @cloudron platform itself that is only #sourceavailable

@teleclimber @aljazmerzen @dahukanna @scottjenson my favourite thing in this space is @cloudron it's by far the best IMHO. It's not #opensource but it's #sourceavailable. I started a thread on their forum of other similar things here which may be of interest https://forum.cloudron.io/post/73347

@teleclimber @aljazmerzen @dahukanna @scottjenson my favourite thing in this space is @cloudron it's by far the best IMHO. It's not #opensource but it's #sourceavailable. I started a thread on their forum of other similar things here which may be of interest https://forum.cloudron.io/post/73347

I just found out that @bookwyrm is Source Available, not Free Code (or as most people call it "Open Source");

https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Which means if anyone asks, I'll be recommending NeoDB (AGPL) instead;

https://neodb.net/

#SourceAvailable

I just found out that @bookwyrm is Source Available, not Free Code (or as most people call it "Open Source");

https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Which means if anyone asks, I'll be recommending NeoDB (AGPL) instead;

https://neodb.net/

#SourceAvailable

More proprietary Source Available nonsense;

https://once.com/license

However, this is still worth a read;

https://once.com/

Everything he says there applies equally to voluntarily paying a purchase fee for an AGPL package, even though you could just assemble it yourself from source code.

#SourceAvailable #SelfHosting

More proprietary Source Available nonsense;

https://once.com/license

However, this is still worth a read;

https://once.com/

Everything he says there applies equally to voluntarily paying a purchase fee for an AGPL package, even though you could just assemble it yourself from source code.

#SourceAvailable #SelfHosting

Winamp A Few Days Later: You Can Fork, And Watch For GPL Violations https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/winamp-a-few-days-later-you-can-fork-and-watch-for-gpl-violations/ #sourceavailable #SoftwareHacks #opensource #winamp

Winamp A Few Days Later: You Can Fork, And Watch For GPL Violations https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/winamp-a-few-days-later-you-can-fork-and-watch-for-gpl-violations/ #sourceavailable #SoftwareHacks #opensource #winamp

Winamp A Few Days Later: You Can Fork, And Watch For GPL Violations - A few days ago the source code for the popular Winamp music player was released in... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/winamp-a-few-days-later-you-can-fork-and-watch-for-gpl-violations/ #sourceavailable #softwarehacks #opensource #winamp

Winamp A Few Days Later: You Can Fork, And Watch For GPL Violations - A few days ago the source code for the popular Winamp music player was released in... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/winamp-a-few-days-later-you-can-fork-and-watch-for-gpl-violations/ #sourceavailable #softwarehacks #opensource #winamp

Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open? https://hackaday.com/2024/09/24/winamp-releases-source-code-but-is-it-really-open/ #digitalaudiohacks #sourceavailable #SoftwareHacks #opensource #winamp

Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open? https://hackaday.com/2024/09/24/winamp-releases-source-code-but-is-it-really-open/ #digitalaudiohacks #sourceavailable #SoftwareHacks #opensource #winamp

Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open? - The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered c... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/24/winamp-releases-source-code-but-is-it-really-open/ #digitalaudiohacks #sourceavailable #softwarehacks #opensource #winamp

Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open? - The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered c... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/24/winamp-releases-source-code-but-is-it-really-open/ #digitalaudiohacks #sourceavailable #softwarehacks #opensource #winamp

Sentry is running a campaign for the new marketing term "fair source". Currently this boils down to their new Functional Source License (FSL).
So far there's not much traction: GitButler and four early stage startups.
What differentiation does this new category offer from source available?
And most importantly, it doesn't address the main concern:
When owned by a single vendor, project license is volatile. https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6

#opensource #sourceavailable #fairsource #FOSS #relicensing

Sentry is running a campaign for the new marketing term "fair source". Currently this boils down to their new Functional Source License (FSL).
So far there's not much traction: GitButler and four early stage startups.
What differentiation does this new category offer from source available?
And most importantly, it doesn't address the main concern:
When owned by a single vendor, project license is volatile. https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6

#opensource #sourceavailable #fairsource #FOSS #relicensing

The support for dual-licensing in formats like Cargo.toml or package.json is garbage for no reason. If you want to dual-license and you aren't exclusively using SPDX standard licenses, your use case is unrepresentable by the formats.

Hate it.

#openSource #sourceAvailable