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I just downloaded and have been loving this. It loads pretty quickly, navigation is intuitive, and I'll finally stop forgetting that Nebula exists because it'll all be in my one big subscription feed.

Since I'm new to moving over to open source, I want to ask the veterans: is this as incredible as it seems right now, or is there something I'm missing?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (30 children)

The futo temporary license is not very open at all. Yes you can view the source code, but the license can be revoked at any time. So this is basically source available for auditing, but no community should use this code / project to build any modifications, or forks, or anything contributing to the ecosystem.

It's great that futo is innovating, but I want to make it clear its not open source by the standard meaning.

Maybe a better term for this type of "source viewable" closed project would be "source verifiable"

(Duplicating my comment from another thread on this subject)

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"Viewable source" is the correct term I believe.

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