[image] Skiff Pages/Drive (Productivity Tools) We require both productivity tools and notebooks to be open-source This is interesting requirement considering that you recommend 1Password, a closed source password manager that arguably protects even more sensitive data. So, your stricter requir…

Feels like this discussion should be tabled until people can agree on what they even mean by open source, which should probably be its own thread. I know PG has its own definition but I have seen others throw out their preferred definiton as well. This whole things feels a bit ambigious, with no c…

PG already has an agreed-upon definition of open-source. Given that many other categories already require open-source (not source available and the like), I think it makes the most sense to stick with that definition throughout the site. [image] Niek-de-Wilde: See: What does Privacy Guides see …

I understand that but it I have seen people mention this should be source first or source available instead. The thread was created over a year ago, its unclear to me if the intent was to even use open source as defined by PG when it was created. Considering that the definiton PG decided upon looks …

[image] xe3: should the minimum criteria require: source-availability, or free and open source? Users should be able to see the code. Users should be able to build the app using the public source code. Users should be able to modify and distribute their forks for non-commercial purposes. …

[image] xe3: should the minimum criteria require: source-availability, or free and open source? I think from a pure privacy perspective source-availability should be sufficient.

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Open source is better. With a source available model, people won’t be as incentivized to look at the code since they can’t use it for their own purposes, while it’s the opposite with open source e.g. vaultwarden devs probably monitor a lot of changes in the bitwarden code. It will have more eyes loo…

The thing is that we actually do not. We list open source as a requirement for a few things, but we have never exactly esthablished what that means. This is because Open source means a lot of different things for a lot of different people, which is what that discussion is for. In any case, it look…

At the time your post here said “Our definition of Open-source follows the OSI definition ” but I see that pull request was recently closed. If the project wants to evaluate whether the open-source criterion should be changed to source-available, that is one thing, but it makes little sense to chang…

Again, we never had defined definition, which is what that thread is for. It came to light because of running issues with existing youtube clients in comparison to GrayJay. And as an added note, nothing is official until its live on the site. :slight_smile:

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