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WelliSolutions / HugeJsonViewer

Viewer for JSON files that can be GBs large.
MIT License
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Where is the source code of this MIT licensed software? #28

Closed protron closed 1 month ago

protron commented 1 month ago

The files in this repository doesn't seem include the source code of the binaries provided.

You seem to have posted links to this repo in StackExchange, and there someone referred to this software as "OSS" (open source software) and I see no one corrected it, so I wonder if this is really open source software? Or if this MIT Licensed project, which has this GitHub repo, is not actually open source at all? (and is just deceiving people to download some program no body is allowed to look at what it really does by licensing it with MIT license when there is no intention to share the code). BTW, the MIT license is designed for open source software (it talks about being able to "modify" the code).

Can you please clarify?

WelliSolutions commented 1 month ago

Totally true. The software was open source and the source code was available via my the SVN of my company. When I closed my company for reasons of the GDPR (or DSGVO), I shut down the servers, including the SVN server.

For the moment, the binaries should be safe, since they are codesigned and timestamped.

I have uploaded the /src folder. I am not super happy with the source code, but some people wanted it anyways, so they got it.

At the moment, I can't build the project because I am missing the DevExpress components.

WelliSolutions commented 1 month ago

Fixed via release 0.4.13.20

protron commented 1 month ago

I'm glad this is really Open Source. And your code looks great (easy to follow). I haven't tried to build from source, but I might if I have to open big JSON files again. Thank you!

WelliSolutions commented 1 month ago

I don't think it's great. It uses DevExpress as a GUI component, which shouldn't exist in a real open source solution.