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Open Source? #22

Open esc opened 1 month ago

esc commented 1 month ago

Is this an open source library?

qsourav commented 1 month ago

Hi @esc, FireDucks is not a open source library at this moment. You can get it installed freely using pip and use under BSD-3 license and of course can look into the python part of the source code. We will notify you once we will fully make it an OSS.

Thanks and Regards, Sourav Saha

bfontaine commented 2 days ago

@qsourav how can it not be open-source but released under the BSD-3 license, which is an open-source license?

eras commented 2 days ago

@bfontaine While the wheel packages are available at https://pypi.org/project/fireducks/#files, and while they do contain Python files, most of the magic happens inside a (BSD-3-licensed) shared object library, for which source code is not provided.

esc commented 1 day ago

@bfontaine the BSD family of licenses does not require the source to be provided (at least according to the Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#:~:text=The%20BSD%20license%20is%20a,code%20be%20distributed%20at%20all.