https://lemmy.ml/post/35472063

The original post is about a supposedly privacy focused keyboard that sends your voice and messages to OpenAI for speech to text. I posted saying I use the FUTO Keyboard as it’s open source and does voice to text on-device. There unsued a discussion about if the FUTO Keyboard is open source, as the license prohibits commercial use. After people sharing thoughts on this for a day, the mods removed the thread for being offtopic and promoting proprietary software. Even if you think that the license prohibiting commercial use makes it not open source, it certainly doesn’t make it proprietary.

  • alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    5 days ago

    Even the thing you linked directly contradicts what you said in like the 2nd paragraph

    1. Free Redistribution

    The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      22·
      5 days ago

      Yeah I was completely wrong. I had always assumed that corporate exploitation was allowed particularly with the BSD license that doesn’t put any restrictions on use. I had no idea corporate exploitation was required by the definition of Open Source.