not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 9 hours agoIs Windows FOSS now?lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square119linkfedilinkarrow-up1676arrow-down125file-text
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minus-squareadb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoIn general terms, it isn’t really. Or at least it is a controversial topic still subject to discussion. https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source As to this specific topic, the fact that all of the code has to be open source is part of the 10 criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition As such, you can’t consider open source the public domain portions of a codebase that also has proprietary portions.
In general terms, it isn’t really. Or at least it is a controversial topic still subject to discussion.
https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
As to this specific topic, the fact that all of the code has to be open source is part of the 10 criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
As such, you can’t consider open source the public domain portions of a codebase that also has proprietary portions.