Deniz🇹🇷@lemy.lol to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-22 days agoWhat is the meaning of close source?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the meaning of close source?Deniz🇹🇷@lemy.lol to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-22 days agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
I mean can’t someone steal code from the devices file manager? or create his own fork?(Sorry for bad English)
minus-squareMambert@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoAnd with open source code, you have the right to copy and modify the code, and distribute your own copies of the original, or the modified code. Try that with closed source code and you’ll get a nice C&D shortly.
minus-squareBestBoucletteslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoWell, that vastly depends on the license it’s under but yeah, that’s the gist of it !
And with open source code, you have the right to copy and modify the code, and distribute your own copies of the original, or the modified code. Try that with closed source code and you’ll get a nice C&D shortly.
Well, that vastly depends on the license it’s under but yeah, that’s the gist of it !