Why the term “open source” is important

• notesnook

  215 8,280 9.9 TypeScript

  A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

  

  The author posted this in a recent discussion on GitHub [0]. Thought I'd share it to get more opinions on the matter.

  Personally speaking it irks me a little when different terms are made ownership by someone. OSI is doing great work but is it considered an authority when it comes to defining what open source is? In other words, can open source exist without OSI? I certainly think so.

  For example, what does it mean when Sentry says their licensing scheme is not acceptable by OSI [1]? Does it change the meaning of open source?

  It's really confusing.

  [0] https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook/discussions/747#d...

  [1] https://open.sentry.io/licensing/

• BookStack

  312 13,739 9.6 PHP

  A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

  

  A bit of context for HNers before/after reading -- This is from the personal blog of the creator of Bookstack[0]. While the text stands alone, context might help (and Bookstack is an awesome, ignoring the dep on MySQL versus Postgres or SQLite).

  [0]: https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack

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