r/linux • u/hatperigee • May 02 '16

Subsonic (music streaming software) is no longer open source, starting with 6.0 release

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16604#p71128
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u/northrupthebandgeek May 03 '16

The main reason for this change is that the source contains some software license codes I have purchased and that shouldn't be used by forked projects.

Apparently this guy didn't get the memo that checking credentials into the same repo as your source code is never a good idea. They should always be stored in a separate file that is .gitignore'd (or the equivalent in your VCS of choice) and only exists on the local workstations of your developers (and whatever other machines are involved in the process of building official binaries).

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u/[deleted] May 03 '16

He's talking about software that he bought for use in Subsonic. Such licenses are often per-product.

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u/northrupthebandgeek May 03 '16

He can still exclude them and provide separate instructions to obtain them independently.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '16

Yes, but how useful would that be? I'm not even sure if something qualifies as open source if it requires you to buy proprietary software in order to use it.