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CaffeineMC / sodium-fabric

A Fabric mod designed to improve frame rates and reduce micro-stutter
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Do not call sodium free and open source #2563

Closed blt-r closed 1 week ago

blt-r commented 1 week ago

In the donation message it says "free and open source" which sodium no longer is.

Lolothepro commented 1 week ago

It's still free and open source

jellysquid3 commented 1 week ago

The suggested edit makes no grammatical sense.

Gaming32 commented 1 week ago

It's free, but officially Polyform Shield isn't an open-source license (I think).

douira commented 1 week ago

The OSI didn't approve it as such, but that doesn't mean you can't nevertheless call it that. One way or another, this PR doesn't make any sense.

blt-r commented 1 week ago

It's not about being approved by OSI or someone else. If the license doesn't allow to fork the software, it is not free and open source license.

jellysquid3 commented 1 week ago

The conversation about whether it's free and open source is not relevant. We've already edited out mentions of it from other places. But the suggested edit here does not make any sense and that's why it was closed.

blt-r commented 1 week ago

So this mention of Sodium being foss will also be removed? You just don't like the way I changed the statement in this PR, am I understanding correctly?

jellysquid3 commented 1 week ago

Yes. We updated this across our online webpages and the project documentation a long time ago. The flavor text in the donation prompt will be edited, it was just missed.

davepusey commented 1 week ago

How is it not free and open source? There is zero cost to be able to use it, and the source is literally right here in this repo.

jellysquid3 commented 1 week ago

The FSF has (for most intents and purposes) defined the "free and open source" phrase, and the Polyform Shield license is not blessed by them. This is largely because the license places limitations on how you can use the software (i.e. you aren't allowed to compete with us, using our own code.)

While this does not matter for essentially anyone but the people who re-upload our mod with a few small changes, a lot of people view it as some kind of infringement on their personal liberties. And frankly, it's not worth arguing with open-source evangelists about whether the software is truly "free and open source", so we just avoid the terminology entirely.