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Slay the Spire 2 has massive success using Godot. Devs do not intend to fight de-compiling. (www.polygon.com)

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[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What you're talking about is "source-available." I.e. being able to read source code but not having licensing rights to redistribute or make changes.

"Open-source" means that being able to modify and distribute changes is built into the license of the code.

For example, Minecraft Java is source-available in that decompiling Java bytecode is trivial - enough so that tools exist which can easily generate a source code dump. However, actually distributing that source code dump is technically illegal and falls under piracy, so it isn't open source.

Edit: I didn't see your edit, this comment is kind of pointless, oh well