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> most of it is open source.

None of it is open source. From your repo:

> not licensed for reuse

Simply making the source available does not make it open source. Open source has a specific definition; to continue to use it in the manner that your project does is disingenuous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

http://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source

This is a wonderful project though. Thanks for sharing!




Sorry, I meant that that particular nib file (an AppKit UI asset) was not licensed for reuse; the rest of the code is, or will be. The nib is not included in the repo; I mention it in the description to explain why the project is missing a file, and also to ensure that people don't clone my app outright and sell it. (Not that anybody would want to do this with a small project like this, but I hope to follow this pattern with my later, bigger commercial projects.) I'm going to add a real LICENSE file in the next commit, probably new BSD, and I've edited the description to clarify this. That would still be under the purview of "open source", right?




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