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Anytype is a PKMS, basically an advanced note taking app for building a second brain, managing tasks - managing life basically. They've recently "open sourced" but I'm not well versed enough to know the implications of what they've done here with their licensing. The only comment on this discussion shows disappointment and states that these licenses aren't open source some observers on Beehaw's FOSS community have shared the sentiment.

I'd love to have a discussion on this, looking between the lines and taking a critical look at who/what could be the beneficiary of these licenses.

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[-] master@lem.serkozh.me 4 points 1 year ago

This license grants individuals the freedom to review, modify, and utilize the code for personal, academic, scientific, research, and development purposes. However, for commercial use, consent from the Any Association is required.

Here, it isn't open source.

[-] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think that actually is a Free Software license, an open source license, or any kind of license for that matter, so much as a vague statement of intent

[-] vintprox@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thom Zane has pointed out that Anytype's license has a non-commercial clause. Well, I think it's only natural for an EVERYTHING app. Just the thought of it being sublicensed and changed in many ways to being sold as an "exclusive" app, it doesn't leave my mind. There's just a problem with differentiating if something is commercial or not sometimes.

Obviously, it doesn't fit the "open source" criteria, but it doesn't need to be - if you only want to change source code in few places and not offer it in exchange for something.

this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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