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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Open source and FOSS are two different things though. I think Mattermost is open source, just not FOSS and the licencing they mentioned might be wrong (GPL is invasive so they couldn't have a closed source part IIRC), but it's still open source as the code is freely available.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Open source and source-available are two different things.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, but which OSD criteria is being broken here?