On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 09:53:49AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 05:18:38PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I personally don't find "open core" projects to be fully free > > software, even if they follow current DFSG, OSI, and FSF criteria. I > > may be in a minority with that view, of course. > > I agree that there can be good reasons to avoid open core projects: the > open core part might not be adequately maintained, it might be > prohibitively hard to reimplement non-open core features, etc.
The problem doesn't lie in lack of maintenance nor in lack in features -- many fully free projects have these issues. What's bad is that the upstream has a strong motivation to not accept patches that compete with their commercial offering. The project is still DFSG-free and can be forked, but it's not like a team capable of maintaining something that size will pop up from nothing. And if we get too uppity, upstream will become hostile. Meow! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
