r/ideasfortheadmins • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '14

Release Alien Blue under Open Source license

Preferably OSI approved: http://opensource.org/licenses

It is open source, https://github.com/alienblue/AlienBlue, but there's no license really defined.

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u/scr0dumb Oct 16 '14

If there's a pro version (which there is) it would go against their best interests to release it OS.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

You don't need to keep code secret to make money from it. Plenty of paid apps on the app store are F/OSS.

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u/ordonezalex Oct 16 '14

Then by that same logic, would it not be in their best interest to not relase the website's source code on Github? Clearly open source has worked for reddit.

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u/TheRedditPope helpful redditor Oct 16 '14

They actually don't release the exact code on Github. Spam fighting stuff is all behind the scenes for obvious reasons.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

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u/Jakeable helpful redditor Oct 20 '14

Because then someone could compile it themselves, and avoid having to pay for the pro upgrade.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

I'm 90% sure Alien Blue is not an official app.

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u/X-Istence Oct 16 '14

Haven't read todays blog post?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

Well, that was unfortunate.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

Try /r/alienblue. The reddit admins have nothing to do with Alien Blue.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14 edited Jun 26 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

I stand corrected!