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analgesicproductions / Even-The-Ocean-Open-Source

99%-Open Source code of Even the Ocean, a 2016 PC game.
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Terminology suggestion #1

Open Nomagno opened 1 year ago

Nomagno commented 1 year ago

This is an amazing gesture! However, the license itself is not open source and clearly states it in its text. Wouldn't it be more accurate to call this a source-releasing endeavour rather than an open-sourcing endeavour in blogs and other platforms?

Best regards.

penyuan commented 1 year ago

Thank you @Nomagno for pointing this out! Indeed this repository is NOT open source. There are good reasons why there is a clear definition for open source, and we should be consistent with that.

@analgesicproductions: Can you please change the terminology in this repository and in this blog post to avoid the term "open source"? Instead, you could say "source-viewable" or "open-ish".

Thank you @analgesicproductions for sharing the source code, and thank you in advance for changing the terminology!

LiamDawe commented 1 year ago

I believe the most common term for this would simply be “Source Available” because it’s definitely not “open source” under the OSI definition and yeah, the license clearly notes itself that it’s not open source.