• AWittyUsername@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    So is Android. So is Chromium. So is React, and Flutter. So is Java.

    Open source doesn’t mean FOSS.

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      5 months ago

      Open source does mean FOSS. It doesn’t mean community-oriented.

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        5 months ago

        No it doesn’t. Different licenses dictate what you can and can’t do with open source software. Some are more restrictive than others. Open source simply means that the source code is freely available.