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Christian (Apollo Dev) on contributing to Voyager (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

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[–] SinTacks 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I didn’t say he was obligated to open source it. He gains nothing by keeping it closed. If he had open sourced it I could still use it because I have a Reddit API key. If he open sourced it, it could be converted to work with Lemmy. But he effectively burned it down.

He doesn’t owe it to me to open source it but I can still think it was a shitty selfish decision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He also gains nothing from open sourcing it

People need to stop having the expectation that everything should be open source. It shouldn’t, nor will it ever be

[–] SinTacks 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It costs him nothing and makes thousands of people happy. It contributes to the open source landscape which he built on heavily. Search his Reddit profile for open source mentions and see for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And?

Why does he owe his work to you and anyone else who wants to take it and use it as their own?

I don’t open source anything I intend to actually do anything with, and I’d assume he has a similar policy.