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ssddanbrown / Open-Source-Confusion-Cases

A list of cases where open source licenses are misrepresented or where "Open Source" is used in a non-open-source-definition adhering manner.
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FreeFileSync #37

Closed elliotwutingfeng closed 7 months ago

elliotwutingfeng commented 8 months ago

FreeFileSync is a file synchronization program for Windows/macOS/Linux.

FreeFileSync standard edition is licensed under GPLv3, however, the FAQs state that it is not for commercial use, which is an additional restriction not covered by GPLv3 section 7, and hence can be removed by the user.

It appears that the standard edition used to not have such additional restrictions before version 13.

According to another forum topic, the Windows source code is also missing from the source code zip available on the official website.

ssddanbrown commented 8 months ago

Thanks @elliotwutingfeng, I've queried the licensing here: https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11016

I'll focus on the license side for this, since the windows bits get a bit more complex to check, and those threads are a couple of years old.

elliotwutingfeng commented 7 months ago

No response from the author of FreeFileSync as of today.

In the meantime, I have convinced the maintainer of its AUR package to mark the license as "custom".

ssddanbrown commented 7 months ago

Thanks again @elliotwutingfeng, I've now added this to the repo within 979acdc87ee824fc1d963f9e2fc803fa3c02b8d9.