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Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life (arstechnica.com)
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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

but open source is always a spectrum

Is it? I’ve only ever heard “open source” to refer to the source code being released.

Maybe there’s a different term they meant to say other than “open source”

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And being under a permissive license. Just making the source available is called source-available.

[–] exu@feditown.com 5 points 3 days ago

Permissive license means MIT or Apache2. The GPL or AGPL are also open source but copyleft licenses.