License Change from standard Apache 2.0 license · jgraph drawio · Discussion #4623
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From today the license applied to the project will be the Apache 2.0 license with an extra line forbidding usage of the codebase as an integration or app to Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products....
  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    38·
    11 days ago

    TL;DR: Competitors in integrating with Atlassian are not allowed to incorporate code after the change because they used it in free add-ons, which caused the official integration (a paid add-on that is the sole source of funding) to be labeled a scam.

    Plus, the thing was never really open source anyway:

    draw.io is also closed to contributions, as it’s not open source. We follow a development process compliant with our SOC 2 Type II process. We do not have a mechanism where we can accept contributions from non-staff members.

    • peregus@lemmy.world
      182·
      10 days ago

      Open source means that the source code is…open, that everyone can view and use it, it doesn’t mean that everyone can contribute to it. Or am I wrong?

      • chebra@mstdn.io
        21·
        10 days ago

        @peregus yes, wrong. Being “open” doesn’t mean just “readable”. Imagine an open bird cage, not just an open book. It needs to be open to fly free.

          • chebra@mstdn.io
            6·
            10 days ago

            @peregus why do you think so? My view is backed by the two official definitions from OSI and FSF, plus the wording of specific licenses. Your definition is backed by… linguistics? While ignoring the second (open cage) meaning of “open”? Quite strange narrow definition, don’t you think? And at odds with everyone who has been doing open-source for decades.

          • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
            6·
            10 days ago

            That is usually referred to as “source available” and doesnt fall into the category of open source.

      • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
        32·
        10 days ago

        Then nvidia produced Open Source code then I guess?

        (There were Repos, but everything was Copyrighted. Noone was technically allowed to use it afaik, but it was still there about some AI stuff back then)

        • chebra@mstdn.io
          4·
          10 days ago

          @ReakDuck I’m sure nvidia would like that, this “open source” label is good for marketing. They just want to avoid being actually open. Have the cake and eat it, like many businesses do.

        • BlueBockser@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          Noone was technically allowed to use it

          There is your answer. draw.io can be used by everyone and for almost every purpose, so the situations aren’t even remotely the same.

  • Henry@lemmy.ca
    251·
    10 days ago

    Just wondering, if a project switch to close source from open source, all the donation to the stage when it’s open source will be sent back to the donor or counted as shares?

    • peregus@lemmy.world
      28·
      10 days ago

      They count as…gone! Gone to develop what’s been open source until it becomes closed source. As I think it should be, because what you helped to develop with your donation is still there.

  • starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev
    5·
    11 days ago

    I don’t see a CLA so this is somewhat surprising that all ~30 contributors would be okay moving away from open source.

    Unless this was a unilateral decision

  • Lysergid@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 days ago

    Whatever, I’m using it regardless of what shitty commercial alternatives tried to be shoved down my throat. If Draw.io goes shit I’ll just switch to ditaa

    • sunstoned@lemmus.orgEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Thanks for the note on Ditaa. I didn’t know it existed but I love the idea of rendering bitmaps from ASCII, especially on the web. It’s like Mermaid but the original syntax is a diagram in and of itself!

      Like the author writes:

      There is a number of formats that are text-based (html, docbook, LaTeX, programming language comments), but when rendered by other software (browsers, interpreters, the javadoc tool etc), they can contain images as part of their content. If ditaa was intergrated with those tools (and I’m planning to do the javadoc bit myself soon), then you would have readable/editable diagrams within the text format itself, something that would make things much easier. ditaa syntax can currently be embedded to HTML.

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
        41·
        11 days ago

        I really don’t understand the difference between free software and open source at tis point. It would make sense to me if this would make it nonfree, but I don’t understand why is it not open source anymore. Isn’t the open source definition a broader one than that of free software?

        • brisk@aussie.zone
          81·
          11 days ago

          Open Source Software follows the Open Source Definition, while Free Software follows the Free Software Definition.

          They have heavy overlap, one is not a subset of the other, and they are similarly restrictive, just shepherded by different groups. I’m sure there are licences that satisfy one but not the other, but they would have to be few and far between; just reading through each it’s not obvious how one could satisfy only one definition.

        • jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de
          41·
          11 days ago

          Short and not completely true answer: Free Software and Open Source are the same thing, just with different reasoning behind them. Hence “FOSS” and “FLOSS” are also used, which combine both terms.

          • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            It’s clear that it’s not free software, because as the name suggests, that’s about freedoms.

            What is not really clear is that it’s not open source. To me at least it means that the source is public, you can change it, use it, send in patches, etc, but possibly with some limitations.

        • gerdesj@lemmy.mlEnglish
          16·
          11 days ago

          If I give you a free beer, you have one beer. If I give you the recipe, you can make your own beer. You do have to make your own open source beer or you can hire someone to do it for you or perhaps take you through the steps a few times until you’ve got it. With luck there will be a community of open source beer brewers with whom you can interact and improve those recipes.

          Free software is free until it isn’t! The illicit drugs industry works in a similar way (the first hit is for free).

          • jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de
            3·
            11 days ago

            Never read something more wrong about the subject. I sounds like you don’t actually know what Free Software refers to, and that it has nothing to do with the price.

            • menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              11 days ago

              Yeah the free beer thing is what I use to explain what the “free” doesn’t mean. “Free as in freedom. Not free as in free beer.”

    • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      11 days ago

      And despite that, if was still newsworthy enough to be posted like 6 times in total 😅

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deOP
        243·
        11 days ago

        I posted it to 8 communities because there are 8 communities I am aware of where this on-topic. Some people might be subscribed to only a subset of them. This is the natural consequence of the fediverse enabling us to have more than one community for discussing the same topic.

        • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          11 days ago

          I suppose some instances cut others off as well (I see only 6 total) so you have a fair point

        • Andrew@piefed.social
          86·
          11 days ago

          To my mind, the ideal would be that if you, as the person who wants to share some ‘open-source’ news, chose one community that you think is ‘best’ (based on what instance it’s on, if the mods are real people and are active, participation levels, whatever you think really). And we, as subscribers, would do the same. This way, the ‘good’ communities would thrive, and the ‘bad’ ones would wither away. What happens at the minute, is that there’s 8 communities for open source, and there’ll always will be, because they aren’t in competition with one another.

          (this is mostly just a general point about cross-posting behaviour, it’s not meant as a dig at you personally).

          • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deOP
            113·
            11 days ago

            problem is I have no idea which of these communities is “best”, I do not pay enough attention to things going on behind the scenes to have any knowledge of that.

            • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              11 days ago

              problem is I have no idea which of these communities is “best”

              Its a bit basic but so far I’ve just gone with the largest population. Usually I’m just after the most activity and that generally scales with population. It keeps things relatively simple.

              • Quail4789@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                10 days ago

                this’ll just mean whatever’s in .world or .ml will eat up all the other communities. Biggest doesn’t mean best.

                • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  10 days ago

                  There is some lemmy.world sure but also:

                  If a topic suits the philosophy of its lemmy instance its more likely to attract a healthy population. Then when I’m looking for a community on a topic it doesn’t really matter which instance that community is on.