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It's a cool project but it's not open-source. CC BY-NC-SA is not an open-source license, since it limits what the users can do with the code. This is openwashing.


Where do you see that? I see MIT license [0].

[0] https://github.com/FindMyCat/engineering-docs/blob/main/LICE...


Interesting! The end of the page https://www.findmycat.io/ says this:

“Completely Open-Source? What’s the catch?

Yup. No catch. All Software and Hardware files can be found in the Engineering section and the Github page under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License”.

This is in the Frequent Questions section. (You need to click on the question to see the answer.)


Meh. “open source” vs “Open Source”.




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