• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Open source doesn’t mean they have to accept community input. The rights you’re granted are the right to take their code and alter it for your own project, or redistribute it, not direct it.

    A lot of corporate owned open source projects choose not to accept third party contributions at all (or at least without giving them actual ownership), because if they own the entire codebase, they can sell different licenses to businesses that may not like some restriction of the open source license.

    • xavier666@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      I prefer the VS Code approach. The entire codebase is open but owned by Microsoft. But because of the MIT licence, the community has made VSCodium. Microsoft does not interfere with VSCodium (AFAIK). This I think is a good model.