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Clarification of "Open Source Project" #5

Open nerai opened 8 years ago

nerai commented 8 years ago

Could you add a few more words on how exactly (and how strictly) to understand this? You're probably referring to the GPL meaning, i.e. the whole project must be open source, not just (major?) parts of it? How would restricted open source (e.g. no modifications allowed) be handled?

waltheri commented 8 years ago

This is good question. For now I don't have any strict rules for the license. In ideal cases the project should be an open source as specified here. But currently there are also listed projects with free for non-commercial use license. Basically it depends on how much a project is useful for developers. However it may be good idea to add a note to libraries, which aren't truly open source.

If you have some suggestions, let me know and I'll review it.

nerai commented 8 years ago

I don't have anything concrete in mind yet. A generally more broadly including definition sounds fine to me.