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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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Raivo OTP #39

Open elliotwutingfeng opened 5 months ago

elliotwutingfeng commented 5 months ago

Source: https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application

Raivo OTP is a 2FA app that claims to be open-source with a MIT-like license, but redistribution in binary form is not allowed.

An issue was raised in 2022 about this, and here is the response from a collaborator in verbatim.

It depends on your definition of open source. The source is available for everyone, but unfortunately redistribution is not allowed. I had to do this because people started redistributing my app in the Apple App Store for commercial purposes. This introduces legal issues for me as redistribution is not allowed in the Apple App Store.

If you want to use the source, let me know for what and I'll probably approve :)