Open Source Does Not Equal Free Source

Open source — What’s the point?

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If you read by my book at the bottom of this post, you know I dislike arguments about the meaning of words because it is often a waste of time and distraction from important things that need to get done. Like my recent blog series and code in the related GitHub repository.

But this topic of open source has been bugging me for a while now because I see people debating it. But there’s really nothing to debate.

Read the license

There’s this thing called a license that defines how you can use the software. That’s it. Read the license and abide by it if you are a moral and ethical person. If you want to use the software in some other way, offer to pay the author an appropriate sum to use it. If you don’t understand the license, hire a lawyer.

Definition of Open. Source.

As for the term “open source” consider the words, if you must.