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quotemstr on Dec 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: FUSE for macOS is no longer open source

When a FOSS project closes itself off this way, the proper response is to treat it as abandoned and continue development from the last-good version with source available. In particular, MacPorts should not be distributing the binary-only versions. Total disengagement.

f1refly on Dec 11, 2019 | [–]

It's not FOSS, it's just OSS. If it where free software, this whole drama wouldn't have happened.

quotemstr on Dec 11, 2019 | | [–]

Permissively-licensed software is still free software.

saagarjha on Dec 11, 2019 | [–]

MacPorts does not distribute binary-only versions.

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