| ▲ | ksec 5 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>You can simply ignore them. You say this now but between 2013 - around 2023, The definition of Open source is that if you dont engage with the community and dont accept PRs it is not open source. And people will start bad mouth the project around the internet. Working on a project is hard enough as it is. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Linux doesn't take PRs on github, and sqlite doesn't take patches. Open Source isn't a community model, only a license model. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | MyOutfitIsVague 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> if you dont engage with the community and dont accept PRs it is not open source You'd be really hard pressed to find somebody who doesn't consider SQLite to be open source. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bigstrat2003 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That was never the definition of open source. That may have been how people were using it, but they were in error if so. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | lifthrasiir 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Open source softwares with closed development model have existed for a very long time so that should have been considered no matter it was considered as open source or not. (And I think it was around 2000s, not 2010s, when such misconception was more widespread.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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