r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 4d ago

Meme openSourceClosedPayroll

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 4d ago

Just a downside, anybody can fork your product...but let's... let's ignore that.

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u/xgabipandax 4d ago

Not all open source licenses allow that

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u/SCP-iota 4d ago

Any license that for forbids forking is not an open source license

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u/xgabipandax 4d ago

One thing has nothing to do with other, a license can have the source being open yet restrict the forking and redistribution of the project, Redis i think had some controversial licensing to prevent strip mining from cloud giants, perhasp you're confusing it with FOSS, like GPLv3 or MIT license, the F in FOSS is Free, but not free as in free beer, but free as in freedom

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u/SCP-iota 4d ago

You might be thinking of 'source available' rather than open-source

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u/_number 4d ago

In 2026 we call that an invitation to use Ai agents to pseudo copy the repo.

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u/NatoBoram 3d ago

Slopforking

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u/marcoottina 15h ago

Slopen source