diff --git a/notes.md b/notes.md index e4f7512cb2bcbffdc2ab935fe7caface807fd239..cdcb10316d6be1a815bf85ce80d626962117d399 100644 --- a/notes.md +++ b/notes.md @@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ need followup. (See also https://github.com/zooko/tgppl -- note that Richard Fontana is in the commit history there.) -* [Atom (text editor)](https://atom-editor.cc/blog/2014/05/06/atom-is-now-open-source/) +* ONE-OFF [Atom (text editor)](https://atom-editor.cc/blog/2014/05/06/atom-is-now-open-source/) (suggested by @Zaeraxa in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745772) Probably not DOSP: Apparently had no license at all prior to this. -* BerkeleyDB and Sleepycat? +* NOT DOSP BerkeleyDB and Sleepycat? Probably not DOSP: simultaneous dual license. @@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ need followup. Have not found any reference to licensing so far. -* [Ghostty](https://mitchellh.com/ghostty) +* ONE-OFF [Ghostty](https://mitchellh.com/ghostty) (suggested by @Zaeraxa in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745772) "A private project. I plan to open source it one day" -* Modular/Mojo (a highly-anticipated project from Chris Lattner +* ONE-OFF Modular/Mojo (a highly-anticipated project from Chris Lattner (creator of LLVM, Swift, and XLA/TensorFlow). Possibly an example based on code quality and similar concerns, @@ -91,15 +91,20 @@ need followup. their way of operating probably warrants mention in the Appendix, as people interested in DOSP would also want to know about this. -* MkDocs +* UNCLEAR MkDocs I haven't found any delayed licensing information. -* Onivim 2 (was this unplanned?) [issue](https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3771) +* ONE-OFF Onivim 2 [issue](https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3771) see also https://v2.onivim.io/early-access-portal and https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811#issuecomment-910306404 for additional history + There was an early-access sponsorship system but there was never a + public commitment to relicense the code under an open source license. + The developer later stopped working on the project and then relicensed + it as MIT in its entirety. + * Android (Google's eventual publication of changes to AOSP) If Google has typically been pretty regular about releasing stuff to @@ -113,20 +118,11 @@ need followup. Cf. the situation with video game development, as Seth noted. -* OPSI ["co-funding"](https://www.opsi.org/de/dokumentation/opsi-lizenz-und-copyright) (see also [this forum link](https://forum.opsi.org/viewtopic.php?t=1193)) - - They have clearly used a form of delayed open source release in the past in - connection with a bounty-like co-funding mechanism, which is still alluded - to on the company's web site. However, it's not clear that this model is - actively used anymore for the majority of development (if at all), as most - of the code appears to be under an open core model with a subscription model - for proprietary extensions. - * [OTRS](https://www.znuny.org/en/blog/why) (open source -> delayed -> proprietary), but one person said that the announced delayed open release never actually happened. -* Pixelfed ["will be open sourced when we reach v1"](https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps) +* ONE-OFF Pixelfed ["will be open sourced when we reach v1"](https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps) * Qt (officially delayed releases in the past from Trolltech?) @@ -136,21 +132,10 @@ need followup. https://searchcodeserver.com/knowledge-base/eventually-open.html -* [Zed](https://zed.dev/blog/open-sourcing-zed-on-zed) +* UNCLEAR [Zed](https://zed.dev/blog/open-sourcing-zed-on-zed) (suggested by @Zaeraxa in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745772) -# Not software - -* Rockefeller University Press Journal of Cell Biology has a delayed - open access policy with delayed relicensing of academic journal articles - (although the end license is a noncommercial Creative Commons license - so it would not be considered open source) - -* Maybe there are other examples of delayed open access in journals with - formal relicensing that would be considered fully open source (if the - articles were software)? - # An annoying nomenclature problem Even though we seem to think that the Business Source License should be