I always thought CorridorKey was free and open-source

bramhaag 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You would think so considering the creator constantly calls it that, but it is merely source-available. This has been repeatedly brought up along with other very questionable license decisions [0]. The charitable interpretation is that the creator is very confused about what open source is and isn't.

Here's a summary:

- The project is licensed under the "Corridor Key License" [1], which is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with extra clauses that permit commercial use (That's right, CC BY-NC with commercial use allowed).

- CC licenses should not be used for software, and the non-commercial restrictions make this project not open source.

- This project is based on Hiera, which licenses its weights under CC BY-NC 4.0 [2]. Again, non-commercial. He is selling this.

- The license was changed a few times after the community rewrote large parts of this project. The contributors retrained their copyright as there was no CLA or similar, and to my knowledge this wasn't done with their consent.

[0] https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey/issues?q=licens...

[1] https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey/blob/main/LICEN...

[2] https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey/issues/152

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david_van_loon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The underlying software is free and open-source: https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey2.0

The commercial package primarily consists of commercially supported plugins.

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Yukonv 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

Clarification required as the project is NOT open source following OSI definition[1]. It should be advertised as source available as the license is restrictive in how you may use the software.

[1] https://opensource.org/education/what-is-open-source

	▲	dozerly 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They explicitly call that out and mention if folks want to use it for paid projects, to just reach out. Thats a caveat obviously, but the intentions seem noble